Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Gaskell, Elizabeth

In Hollywood all the marriages are happy, it's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Winters, Shelley

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Novalis

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

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

11.

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

Skelton, Red

12.

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

13.

Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.

14.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Dupuy, Alexis

16.

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

17.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

18.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Willis, Bruce

19.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

20.

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

21.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Thomason, Pauline

22.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

J. R. R. Tolkien

23.

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Bundy, Peg

24.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

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

Kathleen Norris

27.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

28.

Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.

Bennett, Jill

29.

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

30.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

31.

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

32.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

Clarke, W. A.

33.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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

35.

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

Candice Bergen

36.

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.

Nash, Ogden

37.

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

Elizabeth I

38.

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

39.

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

40.

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

Key, Ellen

41.

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

Maurois, Andre

42.

Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.

Halen

43.

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

Bible

44.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

45.

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

46.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

47.

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

Mae West

48.

He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.

49.

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

Nick Faldo