Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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

Smalley, Gary

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

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

Kinison, Sam

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

26.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Balzac, Honore De

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

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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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I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Eliot, George

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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

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

Rieux, Madame De

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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

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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

Byron, Lord

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden