Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

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

Hull, Raymond

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lennon, John

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

Hitopadesa

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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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

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

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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 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 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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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

Prior, Matthew