Marriage Quotes - Page 51

Marriage is a great institution.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable, long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

Equal partnerships are not made in heaven-they are made on earth, one choice at a time, one conversation at a time, one threshold crossing at a time.

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.

I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law.

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.