Love and Marriage

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

+ Thomas Vaughan +

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

+ Allen Ginsberg +

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.

+ David Bissonette +

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

+ Francis H. Bradley +

She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.

+ Caecilius +

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

+ Edward Dahlberg +

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

+ Marlene Dietrich +

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

+ Kirk Douglas +

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

+ Prince Philip Edinburgh +

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

+ Ralph Waldo Emerson +

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

+ Benjamin Franklin +

He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.

+ Thomas Fuller +

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

+ Alexander Hamilton +

In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.

+ Henrik Ibsen +

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

+ Groucho Marx +

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

+ John Milton +

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.

+ Thomas Moore +

A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

+ Proverb +

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

+ Helen Rowland +

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

+ George Santayana +

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

+ James Van Der Zee +

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

+ Zig Ziglar +

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

+ Adam Zimbler +

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

+ Charles Horton Cooley +

With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

+ Charles Dickens +

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

+ Ralph Waldo Emerson +

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

+ Euripides +

A favorite has no friend!

+ Thomas Gray +

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

+ William Hazlitt +

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

+ Francois De La Rochefoucauld +

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

+ American Proverb +

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

+ Arthur Schopenhauer +

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.

+ Mary Buckley +

Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.

+ Marlene Dietrich +

A good husband makes a good wife.

+ John Florio +

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

+ Thomas Fuller +

Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.

+ Zsa Zsa Gabor +

I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?

+ John Lennon +

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.

+ Molly Mcgee +

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.

+ Ogden Nash +

The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

+ English Proverb +

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

+ Sir Richard Steele +

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

+ Rose Pastor Stokes +

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.

+ Roger Vadim +

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

+ Queen Victoria +

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

+ Oscar Wilde +

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

+ Judith Anderson +

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

+ Bible +

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

+ Gilbert K. Chesterton +

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

+ Princess of Wales Diana +

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

+ Louise Driscoll +

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

+ Ralph Waldo Emerson +

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

+ Benjamin Franklin +

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

+ David Hare +

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

+ Evander Holyfield +

I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

+ Jafar +

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

+ Jami +

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

+ Kabir +

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

+ Thomas ã Kempis +

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

+ Ovid +

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

+ Proverb +

If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

+ Chinese Proverb +

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

+ Turkish Proverb +

Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

+ Ruckett +

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

+ Jalal-Uddin Rumi +

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

+ Richard of Saint-Victor +

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

+ Charles Shulz +

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.

+ Caroline Bird +

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

+ Anita Brookner +

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

+ Angela Carter +

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him.

+ Cher +

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

+ Don Delillo +

Women are most fascinating between the ages of thirty-five and forty, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass forty, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

+ Christian Dior +

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

+ Andrea Dworkin +

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

+ George Eliot +

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

+ Dame Edith Evans +

They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it.

+ Kate Field +

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

+ Betty Friedan +

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

+ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe +

Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.

+ Germaine Greer +

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

+ Ursula K. Le Guin +

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

+ Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt +

The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions.

+ Emma Jung +

The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

+ D. H. Lawrence +

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.

+ Fran Lebowitz +

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

+ George Meredith +

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

+ Kate Millet +

Woman -- for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."

+ Luigi Pirandello +

For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

+ Bertrand Russell +

I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

+ Becky Sharp +

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

+ Stevie Smith +

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

+ Source Unknown +

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

+ Queen Victoria +

What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.

+ Dave Barry +

The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

+ Charles Baudelaire +

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