Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

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

Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

Tis Love alone can make our Fetters please.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

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

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

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.

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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.

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

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.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Wedding is destiny, And hanging likewise.