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Quotes About Relationships

The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.
~ Unknown
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were not one tree and not two.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
~ Jenny McCarthy
Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work.
~ Unknown
Girlfriends have a come hither look. Wives have a hitherto look.
~ Unknown
My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
~ Rita Rudner
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats
~ Marge Piercy
Love is pure and as sacred as a wedding ring, So if I say I do then it's Loyalty Over Everything.
~ Unknown
We either marry out of LOVE or out of LUST. But only one of them stays for better and for worse.
~ Terry Mark
People won't like me for saying it but a major cause of marital problems today are men who want to remain boys, and women who want to be men.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a divine covenant not a contract. Don't confuse miscommunication with incompatible.
~ Unknown
I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.
~ Frank Ocean
Never consider marrying anyone based solely on material or financial means. Have a pure heart and motives for being with someone and not a goal to use people for your own selfish reasons. It is better to be alone instead of living a luxurious life and wasting time with the wrong person.
~ Unknown
I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
~ Mae West
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show them up.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
~ Francis Bacon
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
Many people marry for the wrong reasons, among them 1) To overcome loneliness. 2) To escape an unhappy parental home. 3) Because they think that everyone is expected to marry. 4) Because only 'losers' who can't find someone to marry stay single. 5) Out of a need to parent, or be parented by another person. 6) Because they got pregnant. 7) Because 'we fell in love,' ...and on goes the list.
~ Bruce Fisher
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
~ Hendrik Hertzberg
A man does not ask a woman to marry him because he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. He asks her to marry him because he 'does not' want to spend the rest of his life 'without' her.
~ Unknown