Marriage Quotes - Page 45

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

As the family goes, so go the children.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.