Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

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.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing even the abc of sacredness, without knowing anything about the eternal. Our intentions were good but our understanding was very small, almost negligible. So instead of marriage becoming something of a heaven, it has become a hell. Instead of becoming sacred, it has fallen even below profanity.

Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Without marriage there will be no renunciation, Buddha would not have left the world - for what? His wife, Yashodhara, must have created the situation - Mahavira would not have escaped to the mountains. Without marriage there would have been no Buddha, no Mahavira. Just think: the history would have been very flat, without any salt, tasteless. Marriage keeps this whole "sorry-go-round" on and on. People call it "merry-go-round".

Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on the earth! Marriage keeps thousands of things going on: the religion, the state, the nations, the wars, the literature, the movies, the science; everything, in fact, depends on the institution of marriage.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Women want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

You ask me, 'What is the secret of remaining happy and married?'

You are asking, 'Is the concept of soul mates more useful than marriage?' Concepts don't matter. What matters is your understanding. You can change the word marriage to the word soul mates, but you are the same. You will make the same hell out of soul mates as you have been making out of marriage - nothing has changed, only the word, the label. Don't believe in labels too much.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

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.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.