Marriage Quotes - Page 63

Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights.

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

I am not faithful but I am attached.

I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr. and Mrs. Nejari, then their children should get married. On the other hand, if the parents don't like each other, but the children do, well, this is where sad poetry comes from.

A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.

Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.