Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

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

Wilson, Earl

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Bierce, Ambrose

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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

Novalis

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Layton, Irving

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

12.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Hull, Raymond

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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

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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

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

17.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

18.

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

Winters, Shelley

19.

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

Allen, Woody

20.

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

Bush, Barbara

21.

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

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Edith Wharton

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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.

Kauffman, Max

25.

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 sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

Martineau, Harriet

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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

28.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Samuel, Herbert

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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

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

Kathleen Norris

31.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rudner, Rita

32.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

33.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ford, Richard

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.

Bunker, Archie

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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

40.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

41.

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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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.

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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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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Landers, Ann