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Marriage Quotes
Marriage quotes, at times, may give us a glimpse of insight into relationship. Whatever, they are always good to read at least once! Marriage quotes by author-names starting with A Alfred Adler: We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. Ambrose Bierce: Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce: Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Amy Bloom: Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. Ann Landers: 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. Anna Garlin Spencer: The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. Anne Bradstreet: If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. Anne Taylor Fleming: A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. Author Unknown: Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is. Author Unknown: Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. Author Unknown: Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Author Unknown: She married him because he was such a "strong man"She divorced him because he was such a "dominating male." He married her because she was so "fragile and cute."He divorced her because she was so "weak and helpless." She married him because "he is a good provider."She divorced him because "all he thinks about is business." He married her because "she reminds me of my mother."He divorced her because "she's getting more like her mother every day." She married him because he was "happy and romantic."She divorced him because he was "shiftless and fun-loving." He married her because she was "steady and sensible."He divorced her because she was "boring and dull." She married him because he was "the life of the party."She divorced him because "he's a party boy." Author Unknown: An old man got on a bus one February 14th, carrying a dozenroses. He sat beside a young man. The young man looked atthe roses and said, "Somebody's going to get a beautifulValentine's Day gift." "Yes," said the old man. A few minutes went by and the old man noticed that his youngcompanion was staring at the roses. "Do you have agirlfriend?" the old man asked. "I do," said the young man. "I'm going to see her rightnow, and I'm going to give her this Valentine's Day card." They rode in silence for another 10 minutes, and then theold man got up to get off the bus. As he stepped out intothe aisle, he suddenly placed the roses on the young man'slap and said, "I think my wife would want you to have these.I'll tell her that I gave them to you." He left the bus quickly. As the bus pulled away, the youngman turned to see the old man enter the gates of a cemetery. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with B Benjamin Disraeli: It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. Beverley Nichols: Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. Bill Doherty: I now think of marriage like I think about living in my home state of Minnesota. You move into marriage in the springtime of hope, but eventually arrive at the Minnesota winter, with its cold and darkness. Many of us are tempted to give upand move south at this point, not realizing that maybe we've hit a rough spotin a marriage that's actually above average. The problem with giving up, of course,is that our next marriage will enter its own winter at some point. So do we justkeep moving on, or do we make our stand now--with this person, in this season?That's the moral, existential question we face when our marriage is in trouble. Bill Doherty: In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the otherperson is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because weknow that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voicescoming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle forless than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomersand their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumerculture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriagethat is not meeting our current emotional needs. Billy Graham: When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the sameperson, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible." Marriage quotes by author-names starting with C Claire Cloninger: I figure that the degree of difficulty in combining two lives ranks somewhere between rerouting a hurricane and finding a parking place in downtown Manhattan. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with D David Blankenhorn: Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institutionuntil something better comes along. Diane Sollee: What we really need is a time machine so that people entering intoaffairs could flash forward and see themselves, their kids, their lives at the other endof this "tunnel of love" - at the end of the fun. Diane Sollee: Beloved, I know the divorce rate for first-time marriages is 50% and much higher for remarriages,but I love you so much I want to marry you anyway. Our love is SO special, I'm sure we'll make it last. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with F Francis Rodman: Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. Frank Pittman: Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with G George Bernard Shaw: Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. George Bernard Shaw: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with H Heinrich Heine: Here's to matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented! Marriage quotes by author-names starting with J Jon BonJovi: As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I everdecide to leave, she is coming with me." Judith Viorst: One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fallout of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with K Kahlil Gibran: Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Katherine Hepburn: Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Kathy Beirne: So many people have the will to have a strong marriage but don't have the skill. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with L Leo Tolstoy: What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much howcompatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with M Menander: There is no such cozy combination as man and wife. Mignon McLaughlin: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, alwayswith the same person. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with O Ogden Nash: The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. Oscar Wilde: Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship,is conversation. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with P Paul Hornung: Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night. Pliny the Younger: An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with R Raymond Hull: All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. Robert Louis Stevenson: Marriage is one long conversation, checkered with disputes. Ron Mincy: I think the gulf between liberals and conservatives on family issues is closing.What we agree on is that there is a problem. Our children are not doing 'family'in ways that are going to promote the well-being of our grandchildren. What'snot clear is what are we going to do about it?. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with S Shirley Glass: I'm tempted to go to all the buildings downtown and put up a sign, "DANGERZONE: Men and Women at Work." Today's workplace is the most common breeding groundfor affairs. It's the proximity and collegiality - the intimacy of working together,not bad marriages, that is the slippery slope to infidelity. Shirley Glass: Men's affairs in particular are often the cause of troubled marriagesand not the effect. In my data, 56 percent of men who entered into affairssaid they had ''happy'' or ''very happy'' marriages, compared with 30percent of women. For men, the strongest predictor for having an affair istheir attitudes and values about monogamy. For women, it's marital unhappiness. The Snipe: Get MarriedStay MarriedWhat a concept. Socrates: As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with T Theodore Hesburgh: The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Marriage quotes by author-names starting with Z Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. These are the marriage quotes that appealed me quite a bit - in a way; they are my personal choice from amongst a host of them. I'll keep adding more to them as and when I come across the ones that touch me deep. Keep checking, if you please! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also is shortly going to harbor 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. 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