Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Allen, Woody

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Maurois, Andre

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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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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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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

Vries, Peter De

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Farquhar, George

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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Eliot, George

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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, Scottish

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