Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

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Best Quotes about Marriage

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Allen, Woody

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

Billings, Josh

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

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

Hitopadesa

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

The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

10.

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

Kinison, Sam

11.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Penn, William

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

16.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

22.

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

Rita Rudner

23.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

24.

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

Rieux, Madame De

25.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

27.

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

28.

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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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

30.

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

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.

Mickey Rooney

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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

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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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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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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

46.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

47.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!