Quotes about marriage
marriage wedding jobs
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery. George Jean Nathan
marriage men seven-years
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. Francis Bacon
marriage spouse enterprise
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
marriage children wife
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
marriage wedding men
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
marriage beautiful moving
A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope. George Washington
marriage believe mean
I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies.
marriage interesting foundation
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
marriage patience appreciate
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. George Santayana
marriage jilted heiress
Heiresses are never jilted. George Meredith
marriage husband wife
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress. Fyodor Dostoevsky
marriage couple together
If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent. Friedrich Nietzsche
marriage interesting conversation
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
marriage cohabitation has-beens
Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.
marriage people great-love
Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.
marriage queens husband
The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife. Franz Grillparzer
marriage men house
Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.
marriage gun python
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. Jeanette Winterson
marriage clothes endless
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes. J. B. Priestley
marriage modern lost
Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.
marriage couple fighting
A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet. George Burns
marriage believe men
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. George Bernard Shaw
marriage thinking too-much
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
marriage different fingerprints
Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.
marriage home men
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
marriage men together
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
marriage people morality
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
marriage nonsense dangerous
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
marriage law firsts
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
marriage couple men
Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
marriage contracts should
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
marriage daughter husband
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
marriage girl sex
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!