Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Farquhar, George

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

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

Mead, Margaret

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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Nick Faldo

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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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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Kathleen Norris

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

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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

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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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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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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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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

Moliere

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

Rita Rudner

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

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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.

Proverb, Arabian

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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

Myers, Cecil

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

Halen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

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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