Marriage Quotes - Page 15

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...or they'll never be able to borrow our car.

I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.

Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.

When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

LADY BRACKNELL

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!

(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.

Très, très, triste...