Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Marriage

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournier

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

Alexander, Shana

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

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

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wilder, Thornton

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

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

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

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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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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.

Murray, Joe

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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

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

Kinison, Sam

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

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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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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.

Hunt, Morton

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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Rita Rudner

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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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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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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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He who marries for money earns it.

Proverb, Yiddish

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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

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

Kathleen Norris

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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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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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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Spencer, Herbert

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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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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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.

Chatterton, Thomas

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

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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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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

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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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