Marriages Quotes (page 2)

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• marriage
• personality
• evening

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to. Nicholas Sparks

• encouraging
• exercise
• responsibility

Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have. Gordon B. Hinckley

• marriage
• fighting
• everything

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. Honore de Balzac

• good
• marriage
• mistake

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it. W. Somerset Maugham

• marriage
• god
• husband

Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God (see Matt. 19:6). Russell M. Nelson

• marriage
• hard
• then

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly. Oscar Wilde

• marriage
• business
• busy

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business. Jane Austen

• love
• life
• marriage

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. P. G. Wodehouse

• marriage
• small
• door

Marriages performed within,' read the sign next to the coffeehouse door, underneath in small letters a verse that combined warning with a sales pitch: 'When lawless lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin. Toni Morrison

• good
• marriage
• sports

Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?' 'What?' 'A sport!' 'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy. Agatha Christie

• marriage
• divorce
• chiefs

Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. Groucho Marx

• women
• him
• best

Marriage I think. For women. Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts. That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt. Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay. To trouble her... Stevie Smith

• friendship
• marriage
• recognizing

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police. Robert Louis Stevenson

• marriage
• breakfast
• wellness

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air? Elizabeth Gilbert

• game
• hell
• powerful

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow. Elizabeth Gilbert