Quotes About Intimacy

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.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage

Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result of being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting.

When you're married you try harder

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

The man who has no secrets from his wife either has no secrets or no wife

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart-about a finger's breadth-for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

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

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty

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

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.