Marriage Quotes - Page 69

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?

Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

An anniversary says, "Think of the dreams you have weathered together. They are intimate accomplishments."

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.