Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

William Shakespeare

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Byron, Lord

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

Wilder, Thornton

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

10.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

Helen Rowland

11.

In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.

Ruckett

12.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

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

Vries, Peter De

14.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Andre Maurois

15.

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

16.

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

Bible

17.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

20.

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

Key, Ellen

21.

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

Mead, Margaret

22.

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

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

26.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

27.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Landers, Ann

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

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

30.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Rainey, Dennis

31.

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

32.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Ann Landers

33.

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

34.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

Corelli, Marie

35.

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

36.

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

Kathleen Norris

37.

The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

38.

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

Proverb

40.

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

Dave Meurer

41.

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

42.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

43.

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

Skelton, Red

44.

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

45.

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

Halen

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

47.

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

48.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Picabia, Francis

49.

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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