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Marriage Quotes
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. No man expects a great deal from marriage. He is quite satisfied if his wife is a good cook, a good valet, an attentive audience, and a patient nurse. Divorce: The past tense of marriage. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work. Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a reformer. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as a act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it. One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant. I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it. An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out. The marriage state, with or without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. Two things are owed to truthfulness - lasting marriages and short friendships.
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