Marriage Quotes

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.

My wife (Maria) is the best reason to come home.

Man and wife, being two, are one in love.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.

My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.

Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while goin' through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy sand ven he go to the end of the alphabet, it's a matter of taste.

Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.

Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck

I am never going to get divorced, and that's that.

Sign at a Kentucky appliance store: Don't kill your wife. Let our washing machine do the dirty work.

To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

Men who can eat anything they want and not gain weight should do it out of sight of the women they're married to.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.

if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.

Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

I always thought Camilla was the perfect love match with Charles.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

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.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.