Married Life Quotes

Always being there was the essential secret for a wife.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Many people engage in physical relationships without ever experiencing intimacy

DeBorrah K. Ogans

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Most of us save our best behavior for those whom we barely know and show our worst side to those we know the best.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

Love me, desire me and pray for me.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All things are made beautiful at a timely hour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Men marry. Women wed.

Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence.

Marie Darrieussecq

It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’.

Lailah Gifty Akita

How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love fuels the existence of a divine being

Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

Sōseki Natsume

My greatest privilege is being married to a gentle loving husband. I am very grateful God made our path cross.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The bond of love is supernatural.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

God will fulfil His gracious promises.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

Pray daily for your family.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must give people the chance to change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May God give you the grace to pray and the desire to read the Holy Bible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is happiness of the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The strength of love is beyond measure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My love, you are always on my mind and heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love forgives and keeps no records of wrongs .

Lailah Gifty Akita

In love, we are made perfect.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love seeks the best. Love endures all times. Love never changes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is not self-seeking.Love is not easily angered.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is sensual and celestial.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is divine force.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold fast to the love of your life

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not live life without a spark of love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Husband and wife, must complement each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

In his business, he observed human nature and came to certain conclusions about it. The conclusions lacked wisdom and originality; in fact, they were tiresome. But they were important to McGarrity because he had figured them out for himself. In the first years of their marriage, he had tried to tell Mae about these conclusions, but all she said was, "I can imagine." Sometimes she varied by saying, "I can just imagine." Gradually then, because he could not share his inner self with her, he lost the power of being a husband to her, and she was unfaithful to him.

You need to be my wife to win with me.

I knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.

Catherine Lacey

Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.

I was beginning to fear that you had turned into one of those boring females who can only say 'Yes, my dear' ... You know very well, Peabody, that our little discussions are the spice of life -- 'The pepper in the soup of marriage' -- Very aptly put, Peabody. If you become meek and acquiescent, I will put an advertisement in the Times telling Sethos to drop by and collect you. Promise me you will never stop scolding...

Elizabeth Peters

Emerson is a remarkable person, considering that he is a man. Which is not saying a great deal.

Elizabeth Peters

Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!

Ljupka Cvetanova

Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly long cord when measured in comparison with any other undertaking in a person’s life, from cradle to the grave if you will. These intimate associations create a bond of love, affection, goodwill, and joy that we seek to duplicate when we marry and begin creating our extended families.

Kilroy J. Oldster

As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we move back and forth on that line decade by decade, year by year, week by week, even hour by hour.

Marriage can bore you but there is a fortitude that comes from it, too. When you need to lean on it, you are so thankful that you can.

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and yet ... I thought when I began, and still think, that there was another angle in all those years when she was growing old and older and very old, and Grandfather was matching her year for year, a separate line that did not intersect with hers. They were vertical people, they lived by pride, and it is only by the ocular illusion of perspective that they can be said to have met. But he had not been dead two months when she lay down and died too, and that may indicate that at that absolute vanishing point they did intersect. They had intersected for years, for more than he especially would ever admit.

Wallace Stegner

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

God has the key to open the heart of every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the heartbeat of the sacred soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Married couples must pray and study the Bible daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Christine de Pizan

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Héloïse d'Argenteuil

The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?

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