Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverb

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Updike, John

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Andre Maurois

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

10.

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

11.

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

12.

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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

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

15.

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

Eucharista Ward

16.

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

Vries, Peter De

17.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

18.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Marx, Groucho

19.

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

20.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

22.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

Fox, Michael J.

23.

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

Grizzard, Lewis

24.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Maurois, Andre

25.

O curse of marriage, that we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites.

William Shakespeare

26.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

27.

The ancient saying is no heresy, hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

William Shakespeare

28.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Euripides

29.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.

Harrison, Jane

30.

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

Samuel, Herbert

31.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Victoria, Queen

32.

The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Shakespeare, William

33.

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

34.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Astor, Lady Nancy

35.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Rowland, Helen

36.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Dave Meurer

38.

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

39.

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

Vries, Peter De

40.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

Mae West

41.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

Boone, Pat

42.

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

Alexander, Shana

43.

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

44.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.

Farquhar, George

45.

Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.

Dupuy, Alexis

46.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

47.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Rieux, Madame De

48.

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

49.

Though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage I may not prove inferior to yourself.

William Shakespeare

50.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Knowles, F. M.