Quotes of: Marriage-work Keyword

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

Hesiod

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

Kyle Chandler

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Bede Griffiths

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Caroline Kennedy

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make.

Isla Fisher

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

Mel Gibson

A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter

After the Storm

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

There is no growth in assuming. For it does not give, it takes away.

Husband Rules: A Guy's Playbook on How to Win in Marriage

For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear.

The Interpretation of Murder

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

If the River Was Whiskey

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Joe Jones

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.

Reforming Marriage

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction.

Marriage by Mistake

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

The Mother Who Stayed: Stories

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Nights at the Circus

...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.

The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity