Marriage Quotes - Page 42

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

I always said if I ever get married, I would tell my woman - I love Michael Jordan, I am a Michael Jordan fanatic - I said, 'Michael Jordan is the only athlete you can sleep with and I wouldn't get mad, as long as you got something signed. You gotta bring back a ball, a hat or something. You can't just give away that sh*t for free.'

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl.

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment.