Quotes About Perspective

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener.

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.