Quotes About Marriage

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

I cheated on my first wife, Kristin. I thought I was untouchable. How could I be that inconsiderate to someone?

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

I guess I've got a smart wife.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.

When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her 'good name' was. I think she'd heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, 'Mona Ahmed Ali,' the lady looked at me and exclaimed, 'Oh, so you've married a terrorist.'