Best 84 quotes in «married life quotes» category

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

We must give people the chance to change.

We ate our liver and spinach while watching the right honorable gentlemen of the British House of Commons yelling at each other about the Iraq invasion on C-SPAN. And it was damned good. It was good because it was liver and spinach with cheese, but mostly it was good because I didn't have to make it. Sometimes I want to beat Eric's head repeatedly against a sharp rock, but other times he knows just the right thing to do to make me forget about turning thirty- lull me into a comatose state on the couch with British news shows, then dose me with offal.

When would marrying be great? If only one out of thousands is able to get married. But everyone gets married, so what is a big deal?

We talk about things. We talk about nothing.

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit.

When is one considered to have learnt to become a husband? It is when the wife continuously experiences veneration (respect) for him.

When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr';

You're pretty miserable, Mother, and you're married." - Rose Calloway

Where does the problem arise in adjusting? ‘She is the one I married, she is my wife’. Hey! but she is not a ‘wife’. When he is not a ‘husband’, how can there be a wife then?

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

You need to be my wife to win with me.

And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

All these people get married for happiness, but the poor people become miserable within. That is because it is not under one’s control whether to be happy or miserable. It is dependent on the effect of one’s past deeds (karma). One has no choice. One has to endure them.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

All things are made beautiful at a timely hour.

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we move back and forth on that line decade by decade, year by year, week by week, even hour by hour.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

Dare to love greatly.

Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory.

Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment.

Do not live life without a spark of love.

Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

God has the key to open the heart of every soul.

For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.

... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first.

God will fulfil His gracious promises.

How can you afford to have difference of opinions at home? When the wife says, ‘I am yours’ and the husband says, ‘I am yours’, then how can there be difference of opinions?

He himself is ‘Absolute Supreme Soul’ (Parmatma), but he is involved in experiencing things which do not belong to him lawfully, and that is why he is not aware of that. The Lord had said that he does not object to you having three wives, but they must be lawfully yours. Take care of your wife’s mind, and the wife takes care of your mind, and remain alert that karma (deeds) does not increase.

Hi, you don't know me, but I happen to be married to the man who continues to rudely interrupt you every two minutes.

Hold fast to the love of your life

How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you

How long will your acting as a husband (being boss of the wife) last? As long as you are not at fault.

It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’.

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I tried to dissuade thee from our marriage, from an ill-starred bed; but wert silent as to many, in which I preferred love to wedlock, freedom to a bond. I call God to witness, if Augustus, ruling over the whole world, were to deem me worthy of the honour of marriage, and to confirm the whole world to me, to be ruled by me forever, dearer to me and of greater dignity would it seem to be called thy concubine than his empress.

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

Husband and wife, must complement each other.

Husband’ means ‘wife’ of a ‘wife’. But people have become husbands. Hey! Is the ‘wife’ going to become a Husband?

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.

In love, we are made perfect.

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Love greatly.

Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!

Love forgives and keeps no records of wrongs .

Love is happiness of the spirit.

Love is patient. Love is kind.

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of The Lawes Resolutions [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord.