Marriage Quotes - Page 29

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is true, but what kind of marriage will those perfect marriages be? There will be no tension, there will be no individuality in the man or in the woman. They will never collide, they will never fight. They will be too sweet to each other. And too much sweetness brings diabetes! Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.