Motivational Quotes

Marriage

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Bierce, Ambrose

One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, German

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

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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 always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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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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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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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

Rita Rudner

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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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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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.

West, Mae

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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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

Byron, Lord

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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Updike, John

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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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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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

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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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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Mead, Margaret

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.