The Jewish Wisdom Database

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

No man can consider himself truly married until he understands every word his wife is not saying.

An unmarried man may not be an elementary teacher.

A pleasant home, a pleasant wife and pleasant furnishings enlarge a man's mind.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

The husband is master of the home. . . if the wife is out-of-doors.

A betrothed girl in Jerusalem does not need to adorn herself with the scent of incense.

A man should eat and drink less than he can afford to, dress as well and as much as he can afford to, and lavish more on his wife.

If the eyes of a bride are beautiful, no need to examine the rest.

When a man who has been previously married marries a woman who has been previously married, four people go to bed.

Who commits adultery has no heart.

In pain shall you bear children.

It is not good for Man to be alone.

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and cleaves to his wife: and they become one flesh.

You shall not commit adultery.

If two ropes are tied together, untying one means untying both.

Just as one must respect the memory of one's widow, so one must respect one's divorcee.

A woman asked Rabbi Yossi ben Chalafta: 'How many days did it take the Lord to create the world?' He answered: 'Six.' 'And, since then, what has He been doing?' The reply came: 'Making marriages.'

Everything comes from the woman---a good and worthy wife makes her husband righteous, and the opposite is also true.

If a man's wife dies and he has grown-up children, let him not remarry till he marry them off!

Marriages are made in heaven.

The adulterer and the adulteress have surely broken all Ten Commandments.