Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

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

Rudner, Rita

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

Vries, Peter De

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

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

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Proverb

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Sunday, Billy

You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

Mccant, Jerry

10.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Kraus, Karl

11.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

12.

The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Bolitho, William

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

Winters, Shelley

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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Akhtar, Hoshang N.

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

17.

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

Vries, Peter De

18.

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

19.

You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.

Proverb

20.

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Barth, Joseph

23.

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

24.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

Lennon, John

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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

Proverb, Scottish

27.

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

28.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

Will Rogers

29.

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

Vries, Peter De

30.

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Beecher, Catharine Esther

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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Graham, James

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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

33.

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

Winters, Shelley

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Miller, Dennis

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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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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

Storr, Anthony

40.

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

Bible

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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.

Billings, Josh

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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

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