Motivational Quotes

Marriage

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Marriage

We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.

Moliere

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

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

By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing.

William Shakespeare

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

Rooney, Mickey

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

Aeschylus

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

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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Smith, Anna Nicole

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

Byron, Lord

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

Elizabeth I

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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.

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

Congreve, William

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

Rita Rudner

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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Leacock, Stephen B.

19.

Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Frost, Robert

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All marriages are mixed marriages.

Chantal Saperstein

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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.

Campbell, Mrs Patrick

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

Alexander, Shana

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Winters, Shelley

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

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

Graham, James

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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

Allen, Woody

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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid

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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville)

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Luther, Martin

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

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Ovid

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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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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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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.

Ann Landers

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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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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Woody Allen

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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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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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