#marriage

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#marriage #relationships #age

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees. ↗

— Demi Moore

#guarantees #marriage #still #truth #truth is

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#marriage #women #work #humor

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

#before #body #companion #friend #hast

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. ↗

— Erica Jong

#love #loyalty #marriage #friendship

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? ↗

— Max Schmeling

#everything #had #happy #happy marriage #i

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #love

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

— Simone Signoret

#chains #hold #hundreds #marriage #people

Be the man she can depend on, not the man that constantly lets her down. ↗

— Stephan Labossiere

#dependence #love #marriage #relationship-advice #relationships

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#immaturity #marriage #humor