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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

Franklin, Benjamin

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Nash, Ogden

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

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.

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

Peter Blake

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

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

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

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 low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Baskins

11.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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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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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.

Pancoast, Mal

17.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

Diane Ackerman

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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

19.

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

20.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

27.

My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!

Dangerfield, Rodney

28.

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

Winters, Shelley

29.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.

Davis, Bette

30.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Rowland, Helen

31.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Irving, Washington

32.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Pearl Buck

33.

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

Victoria, Queen

34.

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

Halen

35.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

37.

Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.

Robin Green

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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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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

40.

I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Gabor, Zsa Zsa

41.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

Cosby, Bill

42.

Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

43.

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

44.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

45.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

Goldman, Emma

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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

47.

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

48.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Rowland, Helen

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.