Quotes About Marriage

Once, matches were made behind a child's back; you came home from shaking hands with your in-laws, you wished the bride or groom a mazel tov, and that was that.

All you men are the same—you're not fit to fasten your wives' apron strings.

Not everyone would do for a husband what I've done. All that fancy living has gone to his lordship's head.

To my dear, learned, & illustrious husband Menakhem-Mendl, may your light shine!

You know what, Mendl? Listen to your wife, tell Odessa where it can go, and come home to Kasrilevke.

Never let a husband off the leash. Not even a carpenter knows where the chips will fly.

I tell you, my husband, I've put up with as much as I can. Either you get yourself home in a jiffy and act like a human being—or else! As I wish my enemies an early death, so I am from the bottom of my heart, Your truly faithful wife

Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.

How long a honeymoon are you planning?" Mrs. Stanhope inquired. "About fifty years," Charles replied.

Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.

Marry him. Good dull husbands are hard to find.

When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it

We are astonished to hear declarations by married women and girls which bear witness to a quite particular attitude to the therapeutic problem: they had always known, they say, that they could only be cured by love.

The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried

A riddle: If it was true what she said, that she expected nothing from her husband, why was she forever seething with disappointment?

By the grace of God, we two unworthy souls were joined together in holy marriage. Branded by the flames of sin, bowed by the burdens of sin, we came together at the portals of God's house; together we received the Savior's Host from the hand of the priest. Should I now complain if God is testing my faith? Should I now think about anything else but that I am his wife and he is my husband for as long as we both shall live?

He had been so married to her that he had grown pius himself, because he had believed in her piety.

I hoped that I would give to my marriage the same nurturing that I found easy to give to the corn and the tomatoes. Raising a garden and keeping a marriage in shape are not that different.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

A work of art like this,' he tells one of the journalists, 'demands that the life lived in it be a work of art as well. I am certain that Viktor Landauer and his beautiful wife will do the place justice.

The Ionian invaders killed all the males they captured, marrying their wives and daughters; these forced marriages were said to be the origin of a Milesian law which forbade women to sit at table with their husbands or to address them by name.

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.

one of the problems he will seek to solve is how to make his wife both a servant and a companion; his attitude will evolve throughout the centuries, and this will also entail an evolution in woman's destiny.11