Marriage Quotes - Page 26

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

A young man married is a man that's marred.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent