What Is Marriage Quotes

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

The secret of marriage is: separate bedrooms and separate bathrooms.

That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

Marriage, at first, may seem like it will last forever. But surprisingly, a lot of the times, it shatters easily. Like porcelain.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

Each marriage starts with two built-in handicaps. It involves two imperfect people.

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

The heart of marriage is memories.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.