Marriage Quotes And Sayings

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“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”
– Loretta Lynn

“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
– Mae West

“He’s the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.”
– Mae West

“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
– Mae West

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”
– Mae West

“Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.”
– Mae West

“A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she has no response, it should not take place. This is an act of prostitution and is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.”
– Margaret Sanger

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Marriage isn’t about Winning – It’s about Lasting”
– Mark Gorman

“Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.”
– Mark Gungor

“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
– Martin Luther

“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.”
– Martin Luther

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.”
– Michel de Montaigne

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.”
– Milton Berle

“A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one’s own needs to that of the other’s, in the expectation that the other will do the same.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn’t cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn’t cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it’s Rachel Samstat, she’s bright, she’s funny and she can cook!”
– Nora Ephron

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
– Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

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

“Mendanbar took a deep breath. “You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me.” This wasn’t coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, “As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.”
– Patricia C. Wrede

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. ”
– Pearl S. Buck

“A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself or her children. She has to put him first even if she longs to judge for herself. She has to put him first even when she knows best. To be a good wife is to be a woman with a will of iron that you yourself have forged into a bridle to curb your own abilities. To be a good wife is to enslave yourself to a lesser person. To be a good wife is to amputate your own power as surely as the parents of beggars hack off their children’s feet for the greater benefit of the family.”
– Philippa Gregory

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