Marriage Quotes - Page 77

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

Some marriages depend on domestic arguments the way the courts depend on litigation.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

My husband melted my heart the day he asked me, "Can I participate in your wonder?" In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Household hollowness comes around in irregular cycles, like meteor showers. But the true sign of a bad patch is that it never feels temporary or fixable. It has a shudder of the inevitable to it. The thought crosses your mind that when love goes it goes all at once, and forever.

When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

I was married once before, and I stopped.

Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

I don't want marriage. You know why? Because I did that. I did it for 32 years.

Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.