Quotes About Marriage

If his wife doesn't want him, I certainly don't, was my way of putting it.

And there are plenty of ways to self-destruct: marrying or having a baby in a way that imprisons one in a narrow, prescribed role; abusing drugs or alcohol; becoming physically or mentally incapacitated; joining a cult or organization that offers security and answers; or suicide.

Angela has a boyfriend. Actually, he's a friend with benefits." "What's that?" Grandma said. "It means she likes him, and she sleeps with him sometimes when she feels like it." "In my day, we called that a husband," Grandma said.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join.

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.

Yet she (Princess Diana) suffered one ancient lament of many princess brides--- her husband didn't love her, hadn't wanted to marry her, rarely slept with her, and far prefered his mistress.

In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, 'Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood's dreams.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

Why no!" I cried, astonished. "Adela marry! You might as well suspect a faded lettuce of falling in love.

The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.

But the condition of wife had enclosed her in a sort of glass container, like a sailboat sailing with sails unfurled in an inaccessible place, without the sea.

He's marrying me to have a faithful servant, that's the reason all men get married.

Maybe it's not all over: even after she's married, something between us will endure.

Ecco Lila festeggiata dal rione, sembrava felice. Sorrideva elegante, cortese, mano nella mano di suo marito. Era bellissima. Su di lei, sulla sua andatura, avevo puntato da piccola, per sfuggire a mia madre. Avevo sbagliato. Lila era rimasta lì, vincolata in modo lampante a quel mondo, dal quale s'immaginava di aver tratto il meglio.

One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.

Ahora la aterraba y la hacía sufrir la gruesa alianza que le brillaba en el anular. Incrédula, hizo un repaso de aquel día: la iglesia, el oficio religioso, la fiesta. Qué he hecho, pensó aturdida por el vino, qué es esta argolla de oro, este cero brillante dentro del que he metido el dedo.

You're not happy to be getting married?" I ventured. He looked out the window: there was lightning and thunder but still no rain. He said: "I was fine the way I was.