Marriage Quotes - Page 55

We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather, for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

A good friend just told me that the key to a successful marriage was to argue naked! I'm gonna do that from now on, when that rarely happens.

Men don't settle down because of the right woman. They settle down because they are finally ready for it. Whatever woman they're dating when they get ready is the one they settle down with, not necessarily the best one or the prettiest, just the one who happened to be on hand when the time got to be right. Unromantic, but still true.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.