Marriage Quotes

A husband and wife often fight intensely at one moment and then kiss intensely at the next moment.

Marriage without lovemaking means sad consequences and sorrow.

Marriages are all happy -- it's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.

It's natural to have some disagreement between husband and wife.

A wise husband and a patient wife equal a peaceful home and a happy life.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

A good marriage is at least percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with the window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such -- as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association -- the going will be hard indeed.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind -- intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest -- never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.

Progress of a marriage: "There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage, just like the rhythm of a courtship -- only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first: showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family -- a domestic church.