Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

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.

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

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

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

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

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

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

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

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

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