Marriage Quotes - Page 23

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

Marriage can wait, education cannot.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.