Marriage Quotes - Page 26

• My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

  Julia Quinn

  Girl, Mother, Husband

  5 Copy quote

• How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Men, Intuition, Comfort

  7 Copy quote

• Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Laughter, Passion

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.381, Big Earth Publishing

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

  Isaac Asimov

  Dark, Futility Of Life, Taught

  "Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood".

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

  Derrick Jensen

  Real, Party, Helping

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.146, Seven Stories Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Commitment, Facts

  Nicholas Sparks (2009). “The Last Song”, p.166, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Affair, Ordeals

  6 Copy quote

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Fighting, Monsters, Routine

  5 Copy quote

• In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

  David O. McKay

  Journey, Training, Inheritance

  4 Copy quote

• When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Crazy, Love You

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1136, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Bird, Despair, Cages

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.873, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Expectations, Needs, Cooperation

  4 Copy quote

• Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

  Nora Ephron

  Cooking, Looks, Steps

  Nora Ephron (2011). “Heartburn”, p.135, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Joy, Frustrated, Unhappy

  8 Copy quote

• Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

  Frank Delaney

  Gold, Currency, Standards

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Independent, Two, Insanity

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.583, Open Road Media

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

  Franz Kafka

  Real, Hands, Body

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.30, Schocken

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Love, Thank You, Husband

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.610, Xist Publishing

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Revenge

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

  Sue Townsend

  Father, Years, Moles

  5 Copy quote

• Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

  Richard Bach

  Land, Two, Joy

  16 Copy quote

• Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Spirit, Entourage, Possession

  14 Copy quote

• A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

  E. W. Howe

  Wedding, Husband, Men

  12 Copy quote

• Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Mother, Father

  4 Copy quote

• It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Relationship, Men, Long

  Man and Superman (1903) act 2

  18 Copy quote

  Show source