Quotes About Marriage

Your marriage will only be as healthy as the least healthy one of you.

Great marriages have an ease about them, a back-and-forth nonreactive, nondefensive, open, and ongoing flow in which you never stop talking and figuring it out together.

When you get married you're starting a conversation that never ends

Richard Russell adored his wife. After they had been married for almost forty years, he sent her a note saying, "With a sense of love and gratitude that is overpowering, I can only say God bless you, idol of my heart.

Russell answered, "Well, no—well, it certainly has permitted me to have more hours to work Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had my life to do over again, I would certainly get married.

One client, who hadn't had sex with his wife in 14 months, shared in a Nice Guy group that he was tired of listening to his wife complain about her work problems. That night, for the first time in 15 years of marriage, he told his wife that he was too tired to listen. Even though she was initially angry, later that night she asked him if he wanted to make love.

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort.

Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.

Being kissed by Wyoming Knott is more definite than being married to most women.

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity.

conserving capital and insuring the welfare of children—the two basic societal functions for marriage everywhere

Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial arts, all the homey domestic skills a girl needs in this modern world.

Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her husband was away.

Marriage is a young man's disaster and an old man's comfort." He

It was widely known though rarely mentioned that an eager young bride could accomplish in seven months or less what takes nine for cow or countess.

It says in Little Women that a bride should be half her husband's age plus seven years. Zebadiah and I hit close to that.

No, not exactly. Damn it, why couldn't she have married a white man? We brought her up better than that.

A multimillionaire who is young and female stands as much chance of getting a good husband as that well-known tissue-paper dog had of chasing that asbestos cat through Hell.

When a marriage begins the partners are like two discrete circles overlapping a little. The division between the two is great and each has specific tasks. As the marriage partners grow older, each learns a bit of the other's genius, and finally the two circles overlap more and more.

William Blake said we should go to heaven for form and to hell for energy — and marry the two. When we can face our inner heaven and our inner hell, this is the highest form of creativity.

Marriage is a very different experience for a man than for a woman. The man is adding to his stature; his world is getting stronger, and he has risen in stature and position. He generally does not understand that he is killing the Psyche in his new wife, and that he

must do this. If she behaves strangely, or if something goes dreadfully wrong, or there are many tears, he usually doesn't understand that marriage is a totally different experience for her than for him.

One is reminded of a story about Mark Twain and his very fashionable and respectable New England wife, who once tried to cure him of his salty riverboat speech. Mrs. Twain noted every cuss word he used all week long and then woke him Sunday morning and read it all back to him. Twain listened calmly and commented, You have the words, my dear, but you haven't got the music yet.