Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

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

Barrymore, John

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

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

Rita Rudner

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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

Key, Ellen

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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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 dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Jong, Erica

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Goldman, Emma

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

Wilder, Thornton

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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

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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

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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.

Bush, Barbara

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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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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

Penn, William

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

Prior, Matthew

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.

Nelms, Cynthia

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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

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Sondheim, Stephen

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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