Motivational Quotes

Marriage

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Best Quotes about Marriage

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, 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

10.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

11.

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

Landers, Ann

12.

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

Rieux, Madame De

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

31.

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

32.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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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 neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

39.

Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy

Sondheim, Stephen

42.

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

43.

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

Helen Rowland

44.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Smalley, Gary

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid