Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. — Johnny Carson
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors. — Viktor Korchnoi
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. — Hemant Joshi
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
Short Marriage Life Quotes
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork. — Gad Saad
My life really began when I married my husband. — Nancy Reagan
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. — Rumi
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
Top 10 Marriage Life Quotes
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy! — Paul Washer
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. — Howard Thurman
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
Marriage Life Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Happy Marriage Life Quotes
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life. — Beatrix Potter
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. — Friedrich Koenig
Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want to hurt one another's feelings, and they don't try to make the other one feel humiliated. People who are married for life are extremely kind to one another. — Frank Pittman
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. — Stephen Hawking
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. — Mignon McLaughlin
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow
I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Graeme Simsion
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. — James Ellroy
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. — Maria Bello
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. — Ava Gardner
I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself. — David Rees
When my marriage fell apart I started reevaluating my life and I started to call on the Lord. — Patricia Mauceri
Bad Marriage Life Quotes
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. — Diablo Cody
No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life. — Sophocles
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Marriage is like mushrooms: we notice too late if they are good or bad. — Woody Allen
Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape. — Nancy Werlin
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things — like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day — that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond. — Sarah Dessen
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands. — Doris Lessing
Married Life Quotes
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. — Yiddish Proverbs
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time. — Marabel Morgan
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen. — Teresa of Avila
The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier
Good Marriage Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. — Anne Lamott
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen
A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection. — Dallin H. Oaks
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. — Michel de Montaigne
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time! — Heinz Kohut
In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem. — John M. Gottman
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long. — Amy Grant
Marriage Advice Quotes
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. — Danish Proverbs
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. — Groucho Marx
I married Miss Right. I just didn't know her first name was Always — Red Skelton
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all — Greek Proverbs
Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the end of romance, it is the beginning. — Esther Perel
God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. — Kirk Cameron
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers. — Richard Pryor
Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Strong Marriage Quotes
A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other. — Dave Willis
Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another. — Harold Klemp
Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own. — Deb Caletti
A strong marriage requires loving your spouse even in those moments when they aren't being lovable; it means believing in them even when they struggle to believe in themselves. — Dave Willis
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. — Jim Talent
I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership. — Carson Daly
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair. — Amy Bloom
Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength. — Timothy Keller
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. — Boris Pasternak
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies. — Susan Sontag
Wedding Marriage Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
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. — Ronald Reagan
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno
Wonderful Marriage Quotes
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me. — Fred Ebb
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. — Neil Simon
A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night. — Marilyn Monroe
'If You Could Read My Mind' was written during the collapse of my marriage. It's a great song. No one has any gripes about it. I wondered what my wife and daughter might think. My daughter is the one who got me to correct 'The feelings that you lacked' to 'The feelings that we lacked'. — Gordon Lightfoot
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit. — Billy Connolly
When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. — Donald Johanson
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time. — Kim Wilde
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. — Will Rogers
The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it. — Judith McNaught
Marriage And Family Quotes
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations. — John Stott
Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages. — Frank Pittman
I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort. — J. M. W. Turner
I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family — Drew Barrymore
I live by my own rules (reviewed, revised, and approved by my wife).. but still my own. — Si Robertson
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world. — William J Doherty
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. — James Dobson
The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across. — William Booth
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. — Gabrielle Roth
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. — Maria Monk
I feel that we can't educate children who are not healthy, and we can't keep them healthy if they're not educated. There has to be a marriage between health and education. You can't learn if your mind is full of unhealthy images from daily life and confusion about right and wrong. — Joycelyn Elders
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. — Leo Tolstoy
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. — J. K. Rowling
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life. — Lewis Wolpert
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. — Dave Willis
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree — Vita Sackville-West
Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. — Nicola Sturgeon
I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings. — Isabel Gillies
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. — Mitt Romney
Marriage is risky. Staying single is riskier. Having children is risky. Being childless is riskier. Believing in God is risky. Not believing in God riskier. Discussing politics is risky. Being silent about politics is riskier. Being part of a startup is risky. Choosing a safe route is riskier. It’s not the risk that’s scary. It’s the commitments that come with the risk. Choose your commitments wisely. — Patrick Bet-David
For me and my wife...the easiest part of my life is my marriage. Like if everything was as smooth and easy and fun as my relationship with my wife then I would have a much easier time getting through the day. We really get along and we like the same stuff. — Seth Rogen
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain
The life you want, the marriage you want, the family you want… Is all going to be fueled by the business you build. — Russell Brunson
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. — Alfred Adler
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