Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Updike, John

Best Quotes about Marriage

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.

John Paul II

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Helen Rowland

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Lincoln, Abraham

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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 works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

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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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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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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

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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.

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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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

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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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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

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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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!

Alexander, Shana

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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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