Some pray to marry the man they love,
My prayer will somewhat vary;
I humbly pray to Heavens above
That I love the man I marry.
Marriage is an institution where
two different people share many things in common and enjoy them
so much that they agree to spend the rest of their life together.
We study ourselves three weeks, we
love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate
each other thirty years and then the children start all over again.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to
worry about, he goes off and gets married. Then wakes up to find
that marriage is an agony to be borne because his wife and he
share nothing in common!
Only this time, lets understand and put right the ground rule
for a good squabble and a good marriage so that we may reverse
the above order.
You're given all these lessons for
the unimportant things - piano playing, typing, etc. You're given
years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which
the God knows you will never have to do in normal life. But what
about marriage? Before you can drive a car you need an approved
course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing,
compared to living day in and day out with your spouse!
Do not marry a person that you know
you can live with; only marry someone that you cannot live without.
A woman worries about the future
until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
The bricks of a marriage building
are common interests, the cement is romance, the scaffold is commitment
while the roofs, floor, walls and windows are held together by
the winds of understanding.
THE INDIAN MAN
chooses his own career…
chooses what he eats…
chooses what he drinks…
chooses what he does on weekends…
chooses what language - or rather lingo he speaks…
But when it comes to marriage, he opts for what his family has
to offer him.
The Indian ‘emancipated’ male - too scared to take
risks?
Marriage is popular because it combines
the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Even the God of Calvin never judged
anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
Wilfred Sheed
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then
complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without
a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired
in sheep.
A.P. Herbet
At the end of what is called the
’sexual life’, the only love which has lasted is the
love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure
and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that
in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for
companionship.
Graham Greene
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections
and the truth of imagination.
John Keats
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship-
a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need
of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a
relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression;
in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the
other, and I confronts Thou.
Anthony Storr
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every
day.
André Maurois
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should
learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest-
never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive,
and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest
accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient
child in the other who may erupt again. . . . We are not ridiculous
to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding
ring.
Enid Bagnold
