Marriage Quotes - Page 6

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.