Marriage Quotes - Page 62

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time.

Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.

[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.

A good marriage shuts out a very great deal.

God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage

Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

When you marry your mistress, you create a job vacancy.