Marriage Quotes - Page 10

• Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

  Paul Pearsall

  Dancer, Process, Findings

  Paul P. Pearsall, Paul Pearsall (1991). “The Power of the Family”, Bantam Books

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• It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Love, Inspirational, People

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Mean, Haste

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Couple, Nice, Degrees

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.23, BookBaby

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• He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

  William Wycherley

  Doe, Fool, Greater

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• The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
  see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Children, Government, Levels

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• Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

  Bertrand Russell

  Prostitution, Harder

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.150, Routledge

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• God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.

  Ben Tillett

  Love, Funny, Men

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• In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

  John M. Gottman

  Soccer, People, Good Relationship

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• I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Should

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3622, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
  other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Family, Children, Future

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Pregnancy, School, Men

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• Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wedding, Order, Wish

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• There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

  Jeff Douglas

  Hate, Divorce, Secret

  "Brigadoon", 1954.

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• For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Wife, Quarrels

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• My true love hath my heart, and I have his

  Philip Sidney

  Love, Wedding, Couple

  'The Arcadia' (1590) bk. 3

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• If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

  O. Henry

  Men, Marry Me, Ifs

  The Four Million "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog" (1906)

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• For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
  lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
  there to know what we have done for those we love.

  Frank Pittman

  People, Unbearable, Done

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• But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Married

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• As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

  Carl Whitaker

  Wife, Missing, Together

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• It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wedding, People, Reason

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.163

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• Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

  Jean Kerr

  Inspirational, Life, Divorce

  Jean Kerr (1965). “Mary, Mary”, p.19, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

  Robert Breault

  Long, Waiting, Bless

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• Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Wife

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• The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

  Peter De Vries

  Relationship, Anniversary, Ties

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