Marriage Quotes - Page 70

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!

I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage) so long as it promotes the happiness of the persons married, and the procreation, support, and education of children, and so long as it is founded on the joint free contract of the persons married, and remains under the sanction of the organic society of which those persons are members.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

I'm going to get married again because I'm more mature now, and I need some kitchen stuff.

Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.