Motivational Quotes

Marriage

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Marriage

All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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

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

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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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

11.

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

Cosby, Bill

12.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Maurois, Andre

13.

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.

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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Prior, Matthew

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

Mickey Rooney

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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

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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

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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

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Kinison, Sam

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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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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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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Diller, Phyllis

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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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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

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

Eliot, George

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Farquhar, George

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Kathleen Norris

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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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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Baum, Vicki

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

Bundy, Peg

45.

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

Rita Rudner

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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

48.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.