Quotes About Marriage

Sometimes I feel as if I'm marrying into a pack of tigers," PJ said. "I'm going to have to watch myself night and day." Sempronia patted his arm. "Retain that thought, my dear," she said, "and we'll get along fine.

marriage is about money and property and inheritance? Why else bother with it?

For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

None of them were even married, and the kind of women they got a chance to know weren't likely to be changed by what a rustler would do to them.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled — it's just the opposite!

Spanish encouraged racial intermarriage with the indigenous peoples of America. Anglo-Americans were usually intolerant of it. they were generally able to secure wives of English descent, whereas the Spanish American colonies were extremely unattractive to Spanish women.

Why don't you marry another gay guy? That was fun...

Most people don't die young, at least not here in America. Tragedy is unavoidable, but in this country, it doesn't usually come in the way one dies but rather in the way one lives. Failed marriages, fucked-up children, abuse of self, abuse of wife, abuse of dog, loneliness, depression, loathing, yawn, whatever.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

For the first time in US history, more than half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

His wife "ruled the roast," and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

I'll never marry and I'll die before I'm forty

Wayne Garth, marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.

In today's newspaper there was a story about a married clergyman with three children who is calling for all sex to be declared un-Christian. He says lifelong virginity is the ideal for Christians. I wonder, has he told his wife and children this?

Like the Artha-shastra, but perhaps for the opposite reason, the Kama-sutra is wary of nuns; it advises a married woman not to hang out with "any woman who is a beggar, a religious mendicant, a Buddhist nun, promiscuous, a juggler, a fortune-teller, or a magician who uses love-sorcery worked with roots (4.1.9).

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

There were two keys to securing sexual rights for women. The first was to reform the marriage laws, which gave husbands almost absolute authority over their wives. Marriage-free-lovers insisted-should be a voluntary and equal association between two people who shared a spiritual affinity.

As recently as the fifties, respectable women were given the sexual choice of marriage or celibacy. Anything else meant ostracism. Women who demanded pleasure in sex were condemned as "nymphomaniacs," much as they are pitied today as "victims of male culture" by anti-porn feminists.

Historically, feminism and pornography have been fellow travelers on the rocky road of unorthodoxy. This partnership was natural, perhaps inevitable. After all, both feminism and pornography flout the conventional notion that sex is necessarily connected to marriage or procreation. Both view women as sexual beings who should pursue their sexuality for pleasure and self-fulfillment.