Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nick Faldo

Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ford, Richard

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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

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

Mcgannon, Donald H.

16.

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

17.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

18.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

19.

There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

20.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

21.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

23.

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

Farquhar, George

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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

Byron, Lord

28.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

31.

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod

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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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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.

Landers, Ann

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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

Balzac, Honore De

42.

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

Irving, Washington

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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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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.