Quotes about marriage
marriage brother romantic-love
I am none of those nonsensical fools that can whine and make romantic love--I leave that to younger brothers. Let my estate speakfor me. Sarah Fielding
marriage husband latin
I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.
marriage believe men
[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.
marriage women struggle
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
marriage animal blessing
I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.
marriage suicide husband
My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. Roseanne Barr
marriage fun hate
Oh, hi. I been married thirteen years, and lemme tell you, it's a thrill to be out of the house. I never get out of the house. I stay home all the time. I never do anything fun 'cause I'm a housewife. I hate the word "housewife." I prefer to be called "domestic goddess.
marriage sex food
The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
marriage children cutting
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. Roger Wicker
marriage sex prayer
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. Rod Parsley
marriage long rooms
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. William Faulkner
marriage men half
The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out. Ronald Reagan
marriage wedding men
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
marriage ravens kind
Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens. Saint Augustine
marriage husband sleep
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep. Wilson Mizner
marriage divorce cost
I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't. Will Rogers
marriage taste election
Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.
marriage girl father
It was a marriage of convenience, as my father had a blister on his big toe and couldn't travel far to find a girl. W. C. Fields
marriage things-in-life old-friends
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.
marriage sex married
I've been married most of my life. And when you're married, you don't have sex. Zsa Zsa Gabor
marriage art husband
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
marriage machines complicated
Marriage is a very complicated machine. When it breaks down, you can't fix it with one screw. Yvonne Strahovski
marriage couple judging
Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other. Wilfrid Sheed
marriage men wife
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. Washington Irving
marriage wedding life-is
To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave. Voltaire
marriage humorous being-single
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
marriage husband thinking
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should. William Feather
marriage real despair
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there.... William Butler Yeats
marriage bird cages
... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.
marriage trials separation
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. Rick Wright
marriage winning people
People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl. Trent Dilfer
marriage stills
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued. Robert Graves
marriage men bills
Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.