Marriage Quotes

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage

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.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

A good husband makes a good wife.

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

A sacrament—like marriage—means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

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.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

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

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

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.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

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

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is so much better when you're not married.

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

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

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.

In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

We want playmates we can own.

A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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.

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

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.

Marriage is socialism among two people.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Love is a kind of military service.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

Some women pick men to marry—and others pick them to pieces.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.