Marriage Quotes - Page 30

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.

Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

My wife gives good headache.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Turn your love into promises, that when you doubt your love, you may simply ask, "Am I keeping my promises?"

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.