Marriage Quotes - Page 53

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

In the beginning, a monkey evolutioned gay marriage.

Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.

If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

I'm a serial bigamist.

My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.