Marriage Quotes - Page 40

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

There is a tremendous desire and longing for love, but love needs great awareness. Only then can it reach its highest climax -- and that highest climax IS marriage. It has nothing to do with law. It is a merging of two hearts into totality. It is the functioning of two persons in synchronicity -- that is marriage.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

We want playmates we can own.

"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is a myth that has led generations to expect something from marriage that is not possible.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.