Marriage Quotes - Page 68

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

A good wife maketh a good husband.

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.

I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom...it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

God's first, then family, then whatever else you love.

I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

To marry a woman with any success a man must have a total experience of her, he must come to see her and accept her in time as well as in space. Besides coming to love what she is now, he must also come to realize and love equally the baby and the child she once was, and the middle-aged woman and the old lady she will eventually become.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.

It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

I'm in an interracial marriage.

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace