Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Byron, Lord

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

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

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

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

Stimson, Henry Lewis

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

Pancoast, Mal

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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Hull, Raymond

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

Winters, Shelley

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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.

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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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

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

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

Skelton, Red

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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

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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

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

Graham, James

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

Ford, Richard

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

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

Rita Rudner

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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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

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Vries, Peter De

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

Bible

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Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Sunday, Billy

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Connolly, Cyril

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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Gaskell, Elizabeth

49.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

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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