Marriage Quotes - Page 48

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.

My lifetime listens to yours.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

The first bond of society is marriage.

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.