Ideal Marriage Quotes

#1. When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

Betty Ford

#2. First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.

J.G. Ballard

#3. An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do the will of the Lord ["Our Sacred Duty to Honor Woman," Ensign, May 1999).

Russel M. Nelson

#4. The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein

#5. Love is an ideal. A false hope. Marriage is the reality. And like all realities it is painful.

Anonymous

#6. A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

Iris Murdoch

#7. An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Booth Tarkington

#8. Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was a unique creation. It was a comforting thought. And it filled her with hope.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#10. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Sacha Guitry

#11. The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.

Nathaniel Branden

#12. My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

Olivia Williams

#13. I believe that marriage has served society well, and I believe it is important to affirm that, that marriage between a man and a woman is the ideal. And the job of the President is to drive policy toward the ideal.

George W. Bush

#14. Marriage is a matter for common sense."
"But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?"
"No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

Oscar Wilde

#15. If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#16. There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

Karl Rove

#18. I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

Bella Pollen

#19. I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

Ewan McGregor

#20. Our Heavenly Father wants our hearts to be knit together. That union in love is not simply an ideal. It is a necessity

Henry B. Eyring

#21. ... evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not-so-distant memory.

Karen Swallow Prior

#22. That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

#23. The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.

Heloise

#24. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#25. The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

Aristotle.

#26. Only someone obsessed with sexual fidelity to an unhealthy degree places a higher value on preserving the ideal of monogamous marriage over preserving an actual marriage.

Dan Savage

#27. If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Wilkie Collins

#28. He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#29. So she is pretty and he is rich. No doubt society will judge it an excellent match. I know my father does thus a woman he found intolerable for his son is in turn found ideal for his associate. strange isn't it how it's the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent

Galen Beckett

#30. The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

Alfred Hitchcock

#31. For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

George Meyer

#32. Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

Richard G. Scott

#33. Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

William Taylor

#34. The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

Mahatma Gandhi