Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Mencken, H. L.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Johnson, Samuel

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

The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

Proverb, Spanish

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Auden, W. H.

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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.

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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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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

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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Ford, Richard

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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Asquith, Margot

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

Bible

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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

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

Vass, Susan

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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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Dude, marriage is the'get out of loneliness free'card in the Monopoly game of life.

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Grizzard, Lewis

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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Barrymore, John

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

Kauffman, Max

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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

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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

Rowland, Helen

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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Andre Maurois

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

Clarke, W. A.

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

Murray, Joe

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kathleen Norris

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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Alexander, Shana

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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Bush, Barbara

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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

Jessel, George

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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

Fielding, Henry

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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.