Marriage Quotes - Page 24

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Love is the law of life.

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

In a good marriage each is the others better half.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.