Quotes About Marriage

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway.

Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.

A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good woman. I had too many other things to do.

Why should a bad marriage have been so much more compelling than no marriage? Why had I clung to my misery so? Why did I believe it was all I had?

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box.

If I loved him, would I censor my writing to please him? If I married him, would I force my writing to be married as well?

Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.

The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead.

If you were lucky enough to feel safe enough to fight and struggle, then you were lucky indeed. If you felt loved enough to scream and yell and exercise your power openly, the marriage had a fifty-fifty chance.

Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.

Even when we are screaming and throwing things, we are friends. Who is the man and who is the woman? Sometimes neither of us knows. The marriage is androgynous -- like the closest friendships. It will keep.

E vinovat de adulter? Atunci e vinovat si de casatorie. Cum se poate merge in fata unui primar sau a unui preot pentru a primi garantia ca niciodata un barbat nu se va atinge de alta femeie decat de nevasta lui? Ce om in toate mintile va sustine asa ceva altfel decat constrans? Oprobiul meu se indreapta impotriva casatoriilor si juramintelor de castitate, nu impotriva adulterului, care mi se pare o desteptare sanatoasa a naturii.

I say I never wanna get married. I feel trapped with the idea of marriage. How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody 'This is what I want - take it or leave it.'

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

Maybe it was this place, this strange, ramshackle, warm-hearted place, that had given his wife that air of laughing, welcoming life. Because here she bloomed. With him she had faded and he had faded with her. Yet here she was, his Jane again. His hope. And he had never, ever wanted to hope again.

I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more.

I have no particular desire for a man's guidance. And if you think it will be your duty to guide me after we are wed, then you had better reconsider your role as a husband.

You are accustomed to going your own way without restraint. You no doubt fear losing some of your precious independence." "I do not intend to lose any of my independence," she muttered. "You will adjust to marriage in time." "Now, see here, Gideon, what is all this talk of adjusting?

I must say, Graystone, you are surviving married life very nicely." Peter helped himself to claret from the decanter that had been set out in the library. "Thank you, Sheldrake. I flatter myself that not every man could survive being married to Augusta.

There is so much unnecessary loneliness in the world. Marriage is not necessarily the answer, at least not for women. But an enduring friendship is a great gift and a blessing.

I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman's adventures.

Has some married man asked you to be his mistress? If so, give me his name and I will see to it that he disappears.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

Do not marry a very young man, you know not how he may turn out; it is a lottery at best but it is a very just remark that "it is better to be an old man's darling than a young man's scorn".