Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

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

Rieux, Madame De

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Lawana Blackwell

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

10.

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

Congreve, William

11.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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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 must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

23.

All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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

31.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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

Andre Maurois

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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

41.

Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

42.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

44.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

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Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

West, Mae