Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

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

Vries, Peter De

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Graham, James

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

Nelms, Cynthia

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Rowland, Helen

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Ford, Richard

12.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]

Bible

13.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

Socrates

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

15.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Miller, Harlan

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.

17.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

Ziglar, Zig

18.

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

Dangerfield, Rodney

19.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Wilson, Earl

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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Cartland, Barbara

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

John Scalzi

22.

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dupuy, Alexis

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

Irving, Washington

27.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Updike, John

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Mae West

30.

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

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

Knowles, F. M.

32.

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

Lennon, John

33.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

34.

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

Halen

35.

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

37.

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.

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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.

Greer, Germaine

39.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

40.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Duncan, Isadora

41.

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

Chopin, Daniel

42.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Lyly, John

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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

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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.

Byron, Lord

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Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Young, Brigham

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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Martineau, Harriet

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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.

Heine, Heinrich