MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE - 1
“Let marriage be honorable among all, and let ther marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 13:4 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
The most romantic thing of all is to know the perils of marriage, and to get married anyway. – David Maloof
I am an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I get the house. – Zsa Zsa Gabor
Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person, it is being the right person. – Fred Smith
Adopted kids are such a pain—you have to teach them to look like you. – Gilda Radner
Forgiveness is love practiced among people who love poorly. It sets us free without wanting anything in return. – Henry Nouwen
Adam must have been baffled on Mother’s Day. – Unknown
Sensual pleasure has the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset. – Ann Landers
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. – Voltaire
The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife. – Shelley Winters
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. – Benjamin Disraeli
Honesty is the sexiest thing a man can give a woman. – Debra Messing
Without forgiveness there is no future. – Desmond Tutu
“Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.” – Mildred Natwick (Momma) to Jane Fonda (Cory) – BAREFOOT IN THE PARK – Neil Simon (Screenplay)
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. – Confucius
Let us hope we all were preceded in this world by a love story. - Brilliant!
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love; I only stepped in it a few times. – Rita Rudner
I’ve learned that love, not time, heals old wounds. – Andy Rooney
Death is a challenge. It tells you not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia
MARRIAGE - 2
“Who can find a capable wife? Her value is worth far more than that of corals. Her husband trusts her from his heart, and he lacks nothing of value.” – King Solomon– Prov. 31:10,11 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
The best proof of love is trust. – Dr. Joyce Brothers
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back home. – Henny Youngman
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes everything is an emergency. – Natalie Goldberg
Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. – G. B. Stern
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. – Gary Pulliam
Getting angry can be like getting into a wonderfully resposive sports car, gunning the moter, taking off at high speed, and then discovering the brakes are out of order. – Maggie Scaf
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What really happens is that the family ‘gets together, alone. – Ashley Montagu
I did a picture in England one winter, and it was so cold I almost got married. – Shelley Winters
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in honoring the differences, not simply enjoying the similarities. – James L. Frederickson
I buy women shoes, and then they use them to walk away from me. – Mickey Rooney
If you never want to see a man again, say, “I love you, I want to marry you, and I want to have children.” They leave skid marks! – Rita Rudner
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter DeVries
Behind every successful man is a surprised mother-in-law. – Voltaire
Love is when Mommy gives Dad the best piece of chicken. – Elaine (age 5)
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going. – P. J. O’Rourke
Although today there are many trial marriages, there is no such thing as a trial child. – Gary Wills, quoted by Gail Sheehy in PASSAGES
What the wife of a writer cannot understand is that a writer is working even when he’s staring out a window. – Burton Rascoe
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“And Jehovah God built the rib that he had taken from the man into a woman, and he brought her to the man. Then the man said: “This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one will be called Woman, because from man she was taken.” ” – (Adam’s words on the creation of Eve) – Recorded by Moses – Gen. 2:22,23– HOLY SCRIPTURES
I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney
Some persons spend their whole lifetime searching endlessly for that special person who will change their life, and it never crosses their mind that the person might be themselves. – Unknown
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. I you get a bad wife, you’ll be a philosopher. – Socrates
Saying “I love you,” is not a message, but a conversation. – Leo Buscaglia
An ideal wife is any woman that has an ideal husband. – Booth Tarkington
If you’re gonna do something tonight you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.– Henny Youngman
Love is what’s left in a relationship after all selfishness has been removed. – Cullen Hightower
Loves grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away. – Edwin Hubbard
You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on
When it hits you, you ask, “Where do I go from here?” Psychological shock sets in and shock sometimes acts as an anesthetic. Anger accompanies grief. On the heels of anger is guilt. This type of isolation (self-pity) is unnatural. The rug has finally been pulled from underneath us. – Jim Conway on unfaithfulness – MEN IN MID-LIFE CRISIS
Mistakes are the usual bridges between inexperience and wisdom. – Phyllis Therous
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be home in the bath and she would come in and sink all my boats. – Woody Allen
Don’t marry a man to reform him, that’s what reform schools are for. – Mae West
It’s the little things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting. – Todd Rothman
An archeologist is the best husband a woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie
Love is an act of endless forgiveness. – Peter Ustinov
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“And someone may overpower one alone, but two together can take a stand against him. And a threefold cord cannot quickly be torn apart.” – Writer Solomon – Eccl. 4:12 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Three things that children must know—who’s the boss, what the rules are, and who is going to enforce them. – Lew Powers
When a woman holds off getting married, we call it ‘independence,’ but when men do it it’s called ‘fear of commitment.’ – Warren Farrell
Never idealize them. They will never live up to your expectations. – Leo Buscaglia – LOVE
A mother’s love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, even though her heart is breaking. – Helen Steiner Rice
Everything up to age 40 is just a rehearsal. – A button sometimes worn after a divorce
Any love that lasts becomes a LOVE STORY. A marriage, for example, is a shared story. The partners grow in love partly on the basis of shared memories, and partly on the conviction they are on the journey together. In having children, they bring them into the story and introduce them to the characters – aunts, uncles, and grandparents—who are already part of it. It is an expression of confidence that the story ought to be continued. – William H. Kirkpatrick – WHY JOHNNY CAN’T TELL RIGHT FROM WRONG
The one who loves least controls the relationship. – Unknown
Anger is the condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind. – Anonymous
“I resolve to call her up / a thousand times a day, /Ask her if she’ll marry me / in some old fashion way, / But my silent tears have gripped me / long before I reach the phone, / Long before my tongue has tripped me, / Must I always be alone. / Every little thing she does is magic,/ Everything she does just turns me on, / Even though my life before was tragic, / Now I know my love for her goes on.” – The Police – EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC – Sting (Songwriter)
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. – Michel de Montaigne
Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure that the taste is OK. – Danny (age 7)
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. – Mae West
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same woman. – Mignon McLaughlin
Chains do not hold marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years, more than passion or sex. – Simone Signoret
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“Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for an appointed time, so that you may devote time to prayer and may come together again, in order that Satan may not keep tempting you for your lack of self-control.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 7:5 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and make her sorry to see him leave. – Martin Luther
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship—only backwards. You try to start again but you get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. – Erica Jong
Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it. – Elbert Hubbard
Lack of communication between marriage partners can bring about a situation in which the two lead parallel lives, moving in lines that seldom meet. – Contributing viewpoint – LONELINESS in a WORLD of MASS CONNECTION - 2010
If it weren’t for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. – Unknown
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. – George Bernard Shaw or Ogden Nash, maybe both.
Many people spend more time planning their wedding than they do in planning their marriage. – Zig Ziglar
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty is a menace to the community. – Brigham Young
Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing…The secret of living it all is loving it all. – Joyce Brothers
Marriage is like a violin, after the music is over, the strings are still attached. – Unknown
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with the constitution, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually our constitution expands our liberties, not contricts them. – Barack Obama
Marriage is a miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. – Helen Rowland
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. – Groucho Marx
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“You fathers, do not be exasperating your children, so that they become downhearted.” – Apostle Paul – Col. 3:21 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for the middle-aged and old men’s nurses. – Francis Bacon
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job. – Rosanne Barr
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. – David Bissonette
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married. – Barbara Streisand
After seven years of marriage, I’m sure of two things—first, never wallpaper together, and second, you’ll need two bathrooms—both for her. The rest is a mystery, but as of yet, I love to be involved in. – Dennis Miller
Marriage is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything in the house. – Jean Kerr
One of differences between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things left unsaid. – Harlan Miller
I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too—for being married so many times. – Elizabeth Taylor
All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. – Red Skelton
Marriage is our last best chance to grow up. – Joseph Barth
