Marriage Quotes - Page 50

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Heiresses are never jilted.

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

I'd certainly go for a love marriage

One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.