Marriage Quotes - Page 39

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest.

What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.