Quotes about marriage
marriage running perfect
My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine. Milton Berle
marriage men wife
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.
marriage wedding men
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter. H. L. Mencken
marriage too-late late
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
marriage men scotch-whisky
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
marriage devil ransom
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
marriage husband giving
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
marriage believe men
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
marriage years two
I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
marriage couple two
The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.
marriage husband men
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
marriage husband jealous
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
marriage flirty nice
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
marriage believe guilty-conscience
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. Friedrich Nietzsche
marriage infidelity quality
The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.
marriage spiritual husband
Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.
marriage taken married
Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
marriage matter dictatorship
Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship. Gloria Allred
marriage jobs children
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. Jessica Savitch
marriage mean passion
When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses. Honore de Balzac
marriage fighting monsters
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
marriage law maintenance
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
marriage party fighting
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.
marriage fighting routine
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
marriage husband genius
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
marriage women cutting
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
marriage mother country
To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.
marriage men feelings
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
marriage husband fun
Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
marriage vexation virtue
A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other.
marriage husband thinking
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
marriage wedding literature
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
marriage loyalty world
Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. Erica Jong