Marriage Quotes - Page 60

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

To make one, there must be two.

In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not.

Instead, I think over the years we have cut the strength of marriage and relationships by the law and weakened the institution. We have tried to deal with relationships with no-fault divorce, with child custody, with so many other avenues; and it has not helped.