Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Novalis

Best Quotes about Marriage

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Ford, Richard

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Winters, Shelley

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

Prior, Matthew

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

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

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

10.

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

11.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

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

Alexander, Shana

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

15.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]

Bible

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

Proverb

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

18.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Alan Patrick Herbert

19.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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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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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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.

Daley, Cass

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

Schreiner, Olive

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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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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

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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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

30.

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Maurois, Andre

32.

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

33.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

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

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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.

Fuller, Thomas

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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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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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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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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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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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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

Dobson, Dr. James C.

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

Eucharista Ward

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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

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

Victoria, Queen

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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

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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