Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Penn, William

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

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

A great marriage is not when the'perfect couple'comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Dave Meurer

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Mencken, H. L.

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Grizzard, Lewis

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

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

12.

Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]

Bible

13.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible

14.

Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

15.

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

Maurois, Andre

16.

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

Winters, Shelley

17.

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

Bennett, Jill

18.

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?

Ferber, Edna

19.

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

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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

21.

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

22.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Victoria, Queen

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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

Rooney, Mickey

25.

No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

26.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Smith, Sydney

30.

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Jong, Erica

31.

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

Vries, Peter De

32.

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

33.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.

Proverb

38.

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

39.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

Bundy, Peg

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

44.

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

Elizabeth I

45.

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

Rita Rudner

46.

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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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.

Vass, Susan

48.

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

Mead, Margaret

49.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Wilder, Thornton

50.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.