Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Marriage

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

Rowland, Helen

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Barrymore, John

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

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

Ford, Richard

Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Luther, Martin

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

21.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

22.

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

Byron, Lord

23.

He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Rooney, Mickey

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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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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

30.

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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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

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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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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

38.

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

Sondheim, Stephen

39.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

44.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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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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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