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

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Balzac, Honore De

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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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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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

Dworkin, Andrea

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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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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

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Samuel Johnson

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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

Key, Ellen

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.