Meaningful Quotes about Marriage How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!—Frederic Saunders. If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.—Holmes. If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. -John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats What is there in the vale of life
Half so delightful as a wife;
When friendship, love and peace combine
To stamp the marriage-bond divine?
—Cowper. I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.—Goldsmith. Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms; everything is more beautiful when they have passed.—Madame Necker.
A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch.—Jeremy Taylor.
It is not good that the man should be alone.—Genesis 2:18.
An obedient wife commands her husband.—Tennyson.
No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife.—Richter.
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.—Addison.
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.—Dr. Johnson.
Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.—Rabbi Ben Azai.
Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a second time.—Dr. Johnson.
God the best maker of all marriages.—Shakespeare.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
The following "marriage" maxims are worthy of more than a hasty reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands:—
1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness.
2. Never both be angry at once.
3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company.
4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire.
5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other.
6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each.
7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly.
8. Never taunt with a past mistake.
9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another.
10. Never allow a request to be repeated.
11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,—it is a meanness.
12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during absence.
13. Never meet without a loving welcome.
14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance.
15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness.
16. Never forget the happy hours of early love.
17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is.
18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His blessing alone can make it what it should ever be.
19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the narrow way.
20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home.—Cottager and Artisan.
Let us no more contend, nor blame
Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive
In offices of love, how we may lighten
Each other's burden, in our share of woe.
—Milton.
The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
—Willis.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.—Goethe.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.—Andrew Jackson.
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.—Michelet.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.—Shakespeare.
Of earthly goods the best, is a good wife.—Simonides.
Take the daughter of a good mother.—Fuller.
A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his head.—Jeremy Taylor.
A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.—Dr. Johnson. |
