Marriage Quotes - Page 20

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

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

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.