Quotes About Marriage

This was what marriage was like, being able to look one's fill.

School-age boys had begun to define their life aims in terms of the occupations, and the prestige of the occupations, that lay ahead. They were asking, 'What is my work to be?' while the girls were wondering, 'Who will my husband be?

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

I never confess to being a widow. Widows are thought to be unlucky in some societies, while in others, the local men get over-optimistic ideas.)

Some women marry houses.

She married the prince and all went well except for the fear — the fear of sleep. Briar Rose was an insomniac... She could not nap or lie in sleep without the court chemist mixing her some knock-out drops and never in the prince's presence.

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

Raised to be God-fearing, if not religious, both Violet and Faye came to think of all this - their lives as silent, fettered wives and mothers - as the trade-off for marrying well

What's more, divorces there could be granted on the grounds of simple infidelity, while in America that only counted if the extramarital affair had taken place in the marital home.

Es ist sehr nett, verheiratet zu sein. Man muss nur wissen, dass zwei Menschen niemals ein Herz und eine Seele haben können. Sie bleiben immer zwei Leute, zwei Herzen. Es kommt nur darauf an, angenehm nebeneinander zu leben und doch nie allein zu sein.

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Cela je le savais au début, puis je me suis ingéniée à l'oublier. Sera-ce plus dur d'effacer une année que dix-huit ans avec mon mari ? La haine facilitait les choses, ici l'amour les complique.

Personne ne se demandait combien de temps ça durerait, l'interdiction d'avorter et de vivre ensemble sans se marier. Les signes de changements collectifs ne sont pas perceptibles dans la particularité des vies, sauf peut-être dans le dégoût et la fatigue qui font penser secrètement "rien ne changera donc jamais" à des milliers d'individus en même temps.

Mon mari est arrivé le soir, bronzé, gêné par un deuil qui n'était pas le sien. Plus que jamais, il a paru déplacé ici. On a dormi dans le seul lit à deux places, celui où mon père était mort.

Avec mon mari, autrefois, je me sentais une fille du peuple, avec lui j'étais une bourge.

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.

All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.

Love is grand; divorce is a hundred grand.