Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

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

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

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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

Sondheim, Stephen

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

12.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

15.

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

17.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

18.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Kinison, Sam

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Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

27.

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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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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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

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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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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed: maids are may when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.

Proverb

43.

Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.

Bible

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[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Anspacher, Louis K.

47.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.

Dickens, Charles

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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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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony