Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Ruckett

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

Samuel, Herbert

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Webb, Mary

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Jong, Erica

I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Kinison, Sam

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.

Peter Blake

11.

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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Marriage is the death of hope.

Allen, Woody

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

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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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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Elizabeth I

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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

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.

Chopin, Daniel

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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.

Luther, Martin

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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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I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the'not'eternal.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Rita Rudner

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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.

Landers, Ann

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

Congreve, William

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Homer

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

Jong, Erica

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

Byron, Lord

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

Mickey Rooney

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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.