Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Halen

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Balzac, Honore De

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Lennon, John

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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

12.

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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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

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

Mae West

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

22.

Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rowland, Helen

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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

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

West, Mae

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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

29.

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

Hull, Raymond

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

Victoria, Queen

31.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Vries, Peter De

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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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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Rudner

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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 we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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.

Ann Landers

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Key, Ellen

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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.

Proverb, German

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

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

Sondheim, Stephen