Marriage Quotes - Page 35

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

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.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and personal problems are for the time forgotten, and an intellectual intimacy is established that can be maintained in few other ways.

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?

I've been married most of my life. And when you're married, you don't have sex.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.

Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.