Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Love never claims, it ever gives.