Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

- Storr, Anthony

Best Quotes about Marriage

If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

10.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

16.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

31.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

39.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

40.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

43.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.