Marriage Quotes - Page 22

The heart of marriage is memories.

Husband and wife are like the two equal parts of a soybean. If the two parts are put under the earth separately, they will not grow. The soybean will grow only when the parts are covered by the skin. Marriage is the skin which covers each of them and makes them one.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free.

My heart is ever at your service.

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.