Marriage Quotes - Page 12

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

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

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

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

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.