Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Pepys, Samuel

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Kerr, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.

Cahn, Sammy

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

10.

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

11.

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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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

13.

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

Coward, Noel

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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

Murray, Joe

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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

Key, Ellen

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

Wycherley, William

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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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

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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Vries, Peter De

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

Chatterton, Thomas

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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Winters, Shelley

33.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

Sade, Marquis De

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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Elizabeth Aston

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverb

38.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

39.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

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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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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson

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

Carson, Johnny

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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Rooney, Mickey

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