Quotes About Intimacy

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

If there was more courting in marriage, there'd be fewer marriages in court. Date your mate. Today.

In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.

I'm good in bed, actually, and I think I could learn to be a good communicator, too. The only trouble with that is it leads to marriage.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.

He felt married to her, that was all.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].