Quotes About Marriage

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

What surprises me in life are not the marriages that fail, but the marriages that succeed.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

It started with a simple ring, You became husband and wife, You progressed to being parents And you're still best friends for life.

Husbands and wives, first, be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my life. Or the scariest thing I've ever heard in my life.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

As you know, hairstyle and clothing can change on a daily basis. We've met a lady who identifies people by their wedding rings because this is an identifier that rarely changes…

Gentlemen are rare. They're like virgins or leprechauns. If I ever get married, I'm going to marry one." I can't resist saying, "A virgin or a leprechaun?

Then there's Russell and Lillian Hoban's Frances series, which is almost unbearably wistful, and no wonder: written just before the Hobans' marriage ended, the books seem to document a happy family that was dissolving as they wrote.

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.