Lasting Marriage Quotes

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. ~ Robert Breault

Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. ~ Aristotle.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself. ~ Barbara Walters

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love ... the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you. ~ Alan Zweibel

There is such pleasure in long-term marriage that I really would hate to be
my age and not have had a long-term marriage. Remember, sustaining a pleasurable,
long-term marriage takes effort, deliberateness and an intention to learn about
one another. In other words, marriage is for grown-ups. ~ Cokie Roberts

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside. ~ Frank Pittman

know what relationship you're getting with Mourinho: a full-on, passionate, whirlwind affair with some unforgettable nights but absolutely no chance of a lasting marriage. One caveat though: Mourinho's always wanted this job. ~ Andy Mitten

A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.' ~ Billy Collins

Gathering the golden harvest through long summer days leaves a lasting sweetness to ripen in a man's soul. The smell of newly carted hay can be a lasting memory even in strange cities. ~ Margaret Campbell Barnes

If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start. ~ A. Manette Ansay

When you cease to blame your spous eand own the problem as yours, you are then empowered to make changes to solve your problem. ~ Henry Cloud

There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility. ~ Marcus Garvey

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed. ~ Kendrick Meek

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ~ H.L. Mencken

In 5,000 years of recorded human history ... neither in the east or in the west ... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history.
That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women. ~ Michele Bachmann

If a man liked his friends' painting or writing, I thought it was probably like those people who like their families, and it was not polite to criticize them. Sometimes you can go quite a long time before you criticize families, your own or those by marriage, but it is easier with bad painters because they do not do terrible things and make intimate harm as families can do. With bad painters all you need to do is not look at them. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

But I think it better, in times like these, for us to acknowledge that marriage is a choice, one made, every day, anew. ~ Stephanie Dray

Marriage and dating are man-made ideologies; if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, we'd all be born in pairs; as couples. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fifteen years, and all he had to show were an amount of self-pity and a busted marriage with an innocent daughter hanging between them. It was more disgusting than sad. ~ Ian Rankin

But I need you."
"Need me?"
"Yes. Don't you see? If I'm spending all my time with you, then Queen Levana can't rope me in to any conversations or ... " He shuddered. "Dancing."
Cinder reeled back, her gaze losing focus. Queen Levana. Of course this was about Queen Levana. What had Peony told her, ages ago? Rumors of a marriage alliance?
"Not that I have anything against dancing. I can dance. If you want to dance."
She squinted at him. "What?"
"Or not, if you don't want to. Or if you don't know how. Which is nothing to be ashamed of. ~ Marissa Meyer

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours. ~ Edmund White

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. ~ Khalil Gibran

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence. ~ Fanny Kemble

Marriage is a very long process ... ~ Elizabeth Goudge

The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be. ~ Ken Ham

I really don't have a problem with gay marriage ... because I'm tolerant and rational. ~ David Cross

Marriage is a science which has studied no one! ~ Arnu

You're the girl that guys like us, if we're smart and if we're lucky that is, you're the girl we marry. You're the marriage girl. ~ Penny Reid

This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party. ~ Jacques Chardonne

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided. ~ John Wooden

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage. ~ Joseph Campbell

One of the best things about marriage is that it gets young people to bed at a decent hour. ~ M. M. Musselman

Enjoying your marriage means you can have your cake and eat it too. ~ Nisla Love

At first glance, the ball seemed to be an elegant success. However, re-evaluation would allow an observer to see more than a graceful party. Many well-thought plans highlighted what this really was: a marriage market. ~ Jettie Necole

William: My brother has an appreciation of art, so I imagine the woman he chooses must be beautiful beyond the pale. Once he outgrows his current predilection with painting and accepts his family responsibilities, he'll need a wife who can move throughout society. She must have proper carriage and be a witty conversationalist. She should have excellent bloodlines as well, in the event of offspring.
Emma: With the possible exception of a witty conversationalist, I believe you've described all the attributes of a racehorse. ~ Donna MacMeans

This lasting change can essentially be achieved in two ways: through suffering or through wisdom. Either we painfully push forward through any obstacle or disappointment, learning our lessons the hard way and emerging from the experience more mature, or we choose a path of love, consciousness, and wisdom, which also makes us mature, but in a far more enjoyable and effective manner. ~ Nebo D. Lukovich

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman ~ Uneñ Ameji

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have. ~ Cassandra Clare