Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

No trial is so large we can't overcome it together.

Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never get out of the house. I stay home all the time. I never do anything fun 'cause I'm a housewife. I hate the word "housewife." I prefer to be called "domestic goddess.

Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.

Once a man and woman have married, the only thing they should receive from their parents is advice and counsel, and then only when they ask for it. Parents should not offer opinions or advice without being asked.

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

One should marry only when one is wise enough. Marriage is not for young people. For young people is to fool around. Marriage is for those who have experienced life in many ways, who have seen all the colors, the whole spectrum of it, and are now ready to settle.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

[On husband Gavin Rossdale:] We're a perfect couple. He cooks, and I eat.

On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love.

Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.

Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.

Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.

Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.

People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.