Marriage Quotes
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.
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.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.
By god, DH Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a woman, and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.
Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.
Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.
Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
Her chances of a decent marriage were about to be dashed-and all because of a ferret.
People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.
If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.
To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.
