Quotes About Marriage

My husband's disappeared. He got in from work, propped his briefcase against the wall and asked me if I'd bought any bread. It must have been around half past seven.

Sometimes, I fantasize saying to the man I married, "You know that hamburger you just gobbled down with relish and mustard? It was your truck.

And then Matilda answered her own question because the truth was that Mary-Alice had no idea. "If a man is going to abandon a woman, he will do it for other reasons. He will not abandon her because he gets married." Mary-Alice

Laws institutionalized men's unfounded superiority over women by defining marriage as ownership

Life felt hideously empty. But she told herself that was only because women are educated to think that marriage will be a sudden panacea to all emptiness, and although she'd fought off such notions, she had no doubt been infected by them.

The same June court session also annulled Ralph and Katherine Ellenwood's marriage due to his "insuffiency." Katherine declared that she "would rather die than live with this man," whereas Ralph was reported to have blamed his problem on the presence of witches in the neighborhood.)

When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that possession did nothing to mitigate.

He said, Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer. Baptism is a prayer. No, he said. Baptism is a what I'd call a fact.

Schon bald nach ihrer Heirat war sie zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass Liebe zur Hälfte aus einer Sehnsucht bestand, die durch Besitz nicht zu lindern war.

They're married people." Lila had no particular notion of what the word "married" meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.

He was going on about baptism. A birth and a death and a marriage, he said. A touch of water and these children are given the whole of life.

Lila had no particular notion of what the word 'married' meant, except that there was an endless, pleasant joke between them that excluded everybody else and that all the rest of them were welcome to admire.

Már egy ideje házasok voltak, amikor arra a következtetésre jutott, hogy a szerelem részben olyan vágy, amelyet a birtoklás nem enyhít.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father

At one of these shrines, Michael saw a woman on her knees praying, her husband sitting in their donkey-drawn cart guzzling a bottle of wine. The donkey's head dropped like a martyr's.

Maar tegelijk bedacht ik dat me in mijn leven al zoveel dingen waren overkomen dat ik diende te weten dat niets onmogelijk was, dat de meest bizarre en ongeloofwaardige coïncidenties en voorvallen zich konden voordoen als het meisje, dat nu mijn vrouw was, er iets mee te maken had.

Als je in Parijs wilt blijven, mijn huis is jouw huis,' zei ik heel serieus. 'En als je nog een keer wilt trouwen, dan trouwen we. Mij maakt het geen bal uit of je nu bigamiste of trigamiste bent.

También en sus relaciones conyugales los roles hembra-varón se invierten muy pronto; Emma pasa a ser la personalidad dominante y Charles la dominada. Ella impone el tono, se hace siempre su voluntad, al principio sólo en cuestiones domésticas y luego en los otros dominios: Emma se encarga

They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony: 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?

It was astounding how a woman, when she struck marital gold, procured not just a new wardrobe and new friends but a new voice straight out of a 1930s gramophone (brittle, mono-stereo) and a vocabulary that reliably included laze, season, and terribly sorry.

The million-dollar marital Band-Aid, never a wise idea.

But now that you mention it, will you promise to off me when I'm ninety and never leave home without an oxygen tank? Make a day of it. Just roll me and my wheelchair off the George Washington Bridge and call it a life. Deal? The request seemed to make her smile. Deal. They should really tack that on to the marriage ceremony. 'Do you promise to love, honor, obey me, and also to kill me when I can no longer stand in a shower?'?

I also remembered that love and commitment can flourish without a wedding ring. Neither a ceremony nor sharing the key to the same house is a guarantee of readiness to give of oneself and to be fully open to another, which is what the bonds of real love entail. Quiet as it's kept, love is not easily defined, quickly mastered, or nonchalantly tossed aside.