Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Relationship & Marriage

The institution of marriage was begun that a man and a woman might learn how to love and, in loving, know joy; that a man and a woman might learn how to share pain and loneliness and, in sharing, know strength; that a man and woman might learn how to give and, in giving know communion. The institution of marriage was begun that a man and woman might through their joy, their strength, and their communion become creators of life itself. Marriage is a high and holy state, to be held in honor among all men and women. Marriage is a low and a common state, to be built of the stuff of daily life. Men and women are not angels. Love can become hatred; joy, sorrow, marriage, divorce. But human beings are not condemned to failure.
...Kenneth W. Phifer, Institution of Marriage


"You can tell a child is growing up when he stops asking where he came from and starts refusing to tell where he is going."
...Unknown

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
...Katherine Hepburn

"Women constitute more than half of the world's population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property"
...United Nations report, 1980

"If you bungle (do badly) raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
...Jackie Kennedy

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
...Margaret Thatcher

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ...
a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."
...Barbra Streisand

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
...Harry S. Truman

"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home."
...Bill Cosby

"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness."
...Benjamin Franklin

"If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
...Abigail Van Buren

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
...Lewis Grizzard

"Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry."
...Tom Mullen

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

"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude."
...Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
...F.M. Knowles

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever your're wrong admit it;
Whenever your're right shut up.
...Ogden Nash

The course of true love never did run smooth.
...William Shakespeare

Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
...Helen Roland

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
...Marie Corelli

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

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
...Joe Murray

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.
...Source Unknown

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

Marriage is a wonderful institution...if, of course, you like living in an institution.
...Groucho Marx

To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule: keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
...Marnie Reed Crowell

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
...Rita Rudner

You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.
...Richard Needham

Marriage -- as its veterans know well -- is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
...Tom Mullen

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
...Erma Bombeck

You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you can't live without.
...Anonymous

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
...Simone Signoret

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
...Rodney Dangerfield.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
...Antoine De Saint

"More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."
...Doug Larson

"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
...Sydney Smith

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