Marriage Quotes - Page 38

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

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

Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

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?

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

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

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

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

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.