Marriage Quotes

Initially, after David’s diagnosis, I would cringe when I readbooks or articles by cancer survivors who stated that cancer hadbeen a gift in their lives. How could all that David endured beviewed as a gift? The invasive surgery, the weeks of chemotherapyand radiation: a gift?Yet, after the cancer, David would often reach for my hand andsay, “If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, thenit was all worth it.” And I’d reluctantly agree that cancer had been agift in our lives. We’d both seen the other alternative: patients andsurvivors who had become bitter and angry, and neither one of uswanted to become that.

Mary Potter Kenyon

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending.

Frederick Barthelme

He had no idea about the 'loving deeply' part. Scarlet was the one love he'd had. They'd married the weekend after they'd discovered they both like sangria. He'd thought they were waltzing through life and it turned out she was line dancing.

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

Patrick Modiano

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

Benjamin Disraeli

Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

Bible

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

Bible

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

What therefore God hath joined together let not man put asunder.

Matthew

Something old something new Something borrowed something blue.

Old English Rhyme

If thou wouldst marry wisely marry thine equal.

Ovid

The woman cries before the wedding the man afterward.

A prudent wife is from the Lord.

Bible

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

Bible

Men are April when they woo December when they wed maids are May when they are maids but the sky changes when they are wives.

William Shakespeare

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriages are made in Heaven.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

William Thackeray

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Benjamin Disraeli

Marriage is a great institution and no family should be without it.

Channing Pollock

Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Langdon Mitchell

I married beneath me - all women do.

Nancy Lady Astor

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

A good husband should always bore his wife.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband weighed him and settled him in her own mind and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment but it is the better alternative.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

Anonymous

It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.

Sir Francis Bacon

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Sir Francis Bacon

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honoré de Balzac

With this ring I thee wed with my body I thee worship and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Bible

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

William Congreve

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

To marry once is a duty twice a folly thrice is madness.

There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage and marriage is the sunset of love."

De Finod

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Benjamin Disraeli

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Richard J. Needham

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

Finley Peter Dunne

A husband always prefers his wife's mother-in-law to his own.

Anonymous

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

Spanish Proverb

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.

Chinese Proverb

Seldom or perhaps never does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

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