Marriage Quotes

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

A man and a woman marry because both of them do not know what to do with themselves.

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

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.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.

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.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

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

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.