Marriage Quotes - Page 33

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes socially acceptable, and if you say anything against homosexual marriage or anything - 'Oh, you're not tolerant.' So we're supposed to prostitute our principles, on behalf of tolerance.

The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!