Marriage Quotes - Page 36

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

If we would truly seek to be more like our Savior and Master, learning to love as He loves should be our highest goal

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.