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Marriage Quotes... F to J
“Two
souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.”
Friedrich Halm
“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
“It
is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy
marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The
best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good
marriage is founded on the talent for friendship”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his
wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24
“What
counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you
are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
George Levinger
“The
way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose
him is to keep him a little more jealous.”
H.L. Mencken
“In
marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic, a
forgiver rather than a collector of hurts, an enabler rather than a
reformer.”
H. Norman Wright and Gary J. Oliver
“Often
the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one
consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”
Harlan Miller
“Coming
together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working
together is success.”
Henry Ford
“There
is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye
to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and
delighting their friends.”
Homer
“One
should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.”
Honore de Balzac
“Nearly
all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost
certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in
this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable
mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married
to.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“I
pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of
marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down
that they have not yet seen the right person.”
Jane Austen
“The
sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It
is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all
eternity.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Marriages
are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.”
John Lyly
“Marriage
is our last, best chance to grow up.”
Joseph Barth
“When
you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.”
Joseph Campbell
“Marriage
is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the
sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.”
Joseph Campbell
“Marrying
for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help
but smile on it.”
Josh Billings
“Marriage
is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out
the trash.”
Joyce Brothers
“My
husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but
never divorce.”
Joyce Brothers
“One advantage of marriage It seems to me Is that
when you fall out of love with him Or he falls out of love with you It
keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.”
Judith Viorst
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