Marriage Quotes - Page 19

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

I married beneath me. All women do.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."