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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them." (Davies, Robertson - Genius)

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Browse Quotations about Marriage

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished.
A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
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.
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 is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
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.
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.
An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.
Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!
Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
He who marries for money earns it.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
I hate work. That's why I got married.
I have always thought that every woman should marry -- and no man.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
I married beneath me. All women do.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.