Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

All intimacies are based on differences.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.

And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose...you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself.

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

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

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

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

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.