Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.

Between husband and wife there should be no secrets from one another. I have a very high opinion of the marriage tie. I hold that husband and wife merge in each other.

Marriage is like life

Are you happy or are you married?

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything familiarity.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

Ah Mozart He was happily married

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

I don't object to sex before marriage, but two minutes before?!?

Serocki's Stricture: Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll become a philosopher.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. I am the sky, says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.

An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.

My advice to you is to get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy: if not, you'll become a philosopher.

On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.

We didn't care, we were so happy to get married.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

If you wish to be happy for three days, get married.

Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the ''y'' is silent.

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

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.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

It should be a very happy marriage --- they are both so much in love with him.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.