Quotes about marriage
marriage men thinking
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action. Robert Southey
marriage suicide married
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide. Robert Louis Stevenson
marriage people married
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.
marriage long disputes
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
marriage husband selfish
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
marriage laughter philosophical
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
marriage would-be neglect
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic. Stephen Covey
marriage feelings want
Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?
marriage-equality theater
Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you. Suzanne Brockmann
marriage wise men
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. Sophocles
marriage heart history
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love. Stendhal
marriage democracy able
Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with ... Shirley Hazzard
marriage running cheating
There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife. Steven Curtis Chapman
marriage father years
Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away? Sue Townsend
marriage beauty beautiful
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child. Steven Weinberg
marriage persons findings
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person. Robert Browning
marriage years way
Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year. Raymond Chandler
marriage trials separation
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. Rick Wright
marriage winning people
People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl. Trent Dilfer
marriage wedding heaven
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life. Richard Steele
marriage respect too-much
I respect a woman too much to marry her. Sylvester Stallone
marriage dream couple
That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream. Ray Romano
marriage house rooms
In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter. Stanley Kunitz
marriage wind weather
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. Soren Kierkegaard
marriage twilight long
No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever. Stephenie Meyer
marriage divorce giving
Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce. Will Smith
marriage people tricks
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. Warren Buffett
marriage race half
Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry. Walter Bagehot
marriage facts brilliant
A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
marriage memories writing
Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past. Virginia Woolf
marriage girl strong
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
marriage solitude earth
She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me. William Blake
marriage emotional fire
A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out. Wallis Simpson