Marriage Quotes

Marriage Quote of the day

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

If love is the answer could you rephrase the question?

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

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Were kisses all the joys in bed, /One woman would another wed.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.Act II

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?

...only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Such a mad marriage never was before.

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them.

Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.