Marriage Quotes - Page 25

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Never go in a place that you wouldn't take your wife.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

The prerequisite for a good marriage ... is the license to be unfaithful.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.