Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

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

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.