Quotes About Perspective

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.

I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

My marriage has worked because I am not around much.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.