Marriages Quotes (page 40)

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• marriage
• people
• believe

People believe marriage will make us better. Oprah Winfrey

• friendship
• marriage
• bonding

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Oscar Wilde

• marriage
• gratitude
• relief

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage Emily Giffin

• marriage
• sacrifice
• speaking

But marriage is one long sacrifice....Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer Edith Wharton

• marriage
• decision
• manly

I often think about bachelors, a life of pure decision, of thoughtful calculations, of every inclination honored. They go about on their own, nicely accompanied in their singularity by the companion of possibility. For cannot any man, young or old, rich or poor, turn a few corners and bump into marriage? Elizabeth Hardwick

• marriage
• cold
• funeral

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. William Shakespeare

• marriage
• end
• ends

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. Augusten Burroughs

• marriage
• people
• together

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. Ian Fleming

• marriage
• learning
• firsts

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. Mahatma Gandhi

• happy
• marriage
• angry

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. Elizabeth Gilbert

• happy
• life
• marriage

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy Phyllis McGinley

• world
• peace
• feeling

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them. Michael Palin

• children
• may
• country

May I ask you if you have ever had an opportunity of remarking, down in your part of the country, that the children of not exactly suitable marriages are always most particularly anxious to be married? Charles Dickens

• good
• marriage
• she

None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the by-laws of society, yet lacked courage to suffer the results of their boldness: to seek the good opinion of the world, and yet secretly to act counter to its idea of decorum, was a very contemptible hypocrisy. W. Somerset Maugham

• focus
• words
• business

I know every line of his face. The one that was carved the first year of our marriage, by laughing so often. The one that was born of worries the year he left the contracting companies to go into business for himself. The one developed from focusing hard on Nathaniel as he took his first steps, said his first words. Jodi Picoult