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~ God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage ~ ~ Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~ ~ If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. ~ ~ Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash ~ ~ A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ~ ~ A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude ~ ~ Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ~ ~ God, the best maker of all marriages,combine your hearts in one,your realms in one. ~ ~ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~ ~ Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. ~ ~ The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably ~ ~ I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse ~ ~ The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. ~ ~ Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. ~ ~ Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~ ~ Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life. ~ ~ It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
~ ~ 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.
~ ~ Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished ~ ~ Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage. ~ ~ Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be. ~ ~ Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up. ~ ~ Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. ~ ~ In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part' ~ ~ Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. ~ ~ More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. ~ ~ Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution? ~ ~ Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. ~ ~ Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ~ ~ Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly ~ |
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