Marriage Quotes - page 12

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't. (Spike Milligan)
I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. View quote
William Shakespeare
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. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Marriage is a desperate thing. View quote
John Selden
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession. View quote
Edith Stein
However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage. View quote
Samson Raphael Hirsch
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. View quote
Terrence Rafferty
Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility for the first time in my life. (J. D. Salinger)
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. View quote
Emma Goldman
I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk – who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit. View quote
Cate Blanchett
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love. View quote
Monica Bellucci
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. View quote
Aristotle
Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever. View quote
Quentin Crisp
I have loved flowers that fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents: A honeymoon delight, A joy of love at sight, That ages in an hour My song be like a flower! View quote
Robert Bridges
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. View quote
Vicki Baum
It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it. View quote
Barbara Stanwyck
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person. View quote
Ginger Rogers
Homosexuals are not monogamous. They want to destroy the institution of marriage. It will destroy marriage. It will destroy the Earth. (James Dobson)
I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter. View quote
Colum McCann
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven. View quote
Jerome