Marriage Quotes - Page 21

there are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don't have a common set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.' - Morrie Schwartz

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

Reason is not what decides love.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.