Marriage Quotes - Page 76

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words.

If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

You think you can marry for your own pleasure, friend?

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.

The bride and groom-May their joys be as bright as the morning, and their sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love.

romances and marriages are usually over long before they are over.

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.