Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Marriage

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

Myers, Cecil

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Victoria, Queen

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

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

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

Ziglar, Zig

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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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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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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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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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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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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

19.

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

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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

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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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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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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 a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

28.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

29.

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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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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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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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

Smalley, Gary

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

William Shakespeare

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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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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Allen, Marty

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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Duncan, Isadora

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

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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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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

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.