Married Life Quotes

Men marry. Women wed.

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

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

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.

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

[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 Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!

James Hauenstein

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.