Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Anspacher, Louis K.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.

Nash, Ogden

10.

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

Kathleen Norris

11.

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

12.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Wycherley, William

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

William Shakespeare

16.

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Newman, Nanette

17.

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

Winters, Shelley

18.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

19.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

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

Eucharista Ward

21.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

22.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Streisand, Barbara

24.

Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

26.

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

27.

When I meet a man I ask myself,'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Rita Rudner

28.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.

Vries, Peter De

30.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

31.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

Skelton, Red

32.

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

33.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Carson, Johnny

34.

Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

35.

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

36.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Angelis, Barbara De

37.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

38.

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

39.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

40.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Elizabeth I

41.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

42.

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

Key, Ellen

43.

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

Penn, William

44.

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

45.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

46.

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

47.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Hemingway, Ernest

48.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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

50.

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

Dobson, Dr. James C.