Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

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

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldn't believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me.

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.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard.

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

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

A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

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

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.