Marriage Quotes - Page 3

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

While you’re singing something romantic, I can’t get the lyrics to ‘Love and Marriage’ out of my head, and that tune always reminds me of the jingle from Jeopardy.

Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly conveying, it seemed to me, that by some happy chance their union had introduced her to an unexpected terrestrial paradise.

And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny!

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her.

No chimpanzee husband would stand by while his wife lost all her coconuts.

Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.

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Two perfectly happy people ready to gamble

Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

View Conflict as an Adventure not a threat.

A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of every day life; it was in the traded smiles during a radio show or the peaceful lulls on an evening stroll.

All the beaches of the world, could never amount to, nor implore the one grain of sand that I stand on, which is your love.

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him; they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.