Marriage Quotes - Page 37

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

The essence of love is kindness.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.