Quotes about marriage
marriage church coffins
There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies. George Clooney
marriage smart men
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb. Edward Dahlberg
marriage intelligent thinking
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono
marriage wedding flower
A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. Eddie Cantor
marriage men bows
As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
marriage men people
No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together. Jose Saramago
marriage wedding endless-sea
Love one another, but make not a bond of love... Khalil Gibran
marriage moving sea
love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Khalil Gibran
marriage sake littles
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little. Napoleon Bonaparte
marriage real kids
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. Loretta Lynn
marriage knowing unhappy
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest. Lord Byron
marriage wise wisdom
In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron
marriage girl money
If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future. Lord Chesterfield
marriage bigs
Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive. Malcolm Forbes
marriage practice perfect
One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage. Malcolm Forbes
marriage divorce thinking
To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second. Malcolm Forbes
marriage spiritual unions
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love. Mahatma Gandhi
marriage spiritual learning
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. Mahatma Gandhi
marriage men good-man
It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good. Gay Talese
marriage america optimism
Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair. Maggie Gallagher
marriage pregnancy school
When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems. Maggie Gallagher
marriage example force
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.
marriage roots growing
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.
marriage fate differences
If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
marriage husband men
A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
marriage beautiful love-is
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world. Olive Schreiner
marriage men ifs
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. O. Henry
marriage ties secret-love
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones. Ellen Key
marriage men world
The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
marriage agreement deception
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. Henrik Ibsen
marriage husband women
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her. Helen Rowland
marriage ends worst
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain. Helen Rowland
marriage men vanity
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. Helen Rowland