Quotes about marriage
marriage divorce tangled
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. Wallis Simpson
marriage lying real
The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.
marriage men thinking
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. Samuel Richardson
marriage girl women
The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.
marriage women four
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
marriage husband wife
If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.
marriage order selfishness
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
marriage car motorcycle
As soon as you say 'I do,' you'll discover that marriage is like a car. Both of you might be sitting in the front seat, but only one of you is driving. And most marriages are more like a motorcycle than a car. Somebody has to sit in the back, and you have to yell just to be heard. Wanda Sykes
marriage two
To make one, there must be two. W. H. Auden
marriage interesting romance
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
marriage grief high-heels
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. William Congreve
marriage witty play
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
marriage couple judging
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other. Wilfrid Sheed
marriage men wife
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. Washington Irving
marriage wedding life-is
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave. Voltaire
marriage humorous being-single
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
marriage husband thinking
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should. William Feather
marriage real despair
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there.... William Butler Yeats
marriage bird cages
... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
marriage successful men
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else. William Lyon Phelps
marriage sacred fine
Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
marriage earth highest
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
marriage giving-up names
Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions... Woody Allen
marriage believe people
I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
marriage cement
Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!
marriage funny-love best-love
In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
marriage attitude years
For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.
marriage doe fool
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. William Wycherley
marriage wife comfort
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection. William McFee
marriage country children
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor. William Galston
marriage strong wife
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. Will Cuppy
marriage use firsts
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are. Will Ferrell
marriage government giving
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient. Samuel Smiles