Quotes About Marriage

Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!

Kayla Sheridan, the one who married

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

We, my dear Mildred, are the observers of life. Let other people get married by all means, the more the merrier. . . . Let Dora marry if she likes. She hasn't your talent for observation.

She had now reached an age when one starts looking for a husband rather more systematically than one does at nineteen or even at twenty-one.

Prue hadn't really been in love with Fabian. Indeed, it was obvious that at times she found him both boring and irritating. But wasn't that what so many marriages were - finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring, or irritating?

Brides over thirty shouldn't wear white,' said Jessie, who had now joined them. Well, they may have a perfect right to,' said Jane. A woman over thirty might not like you to think that,' said Jessie quickly. 'There can be something shameful about flaunting one's lack of experience.

He is a brilliant man, said Miss Doggett. She helped him a good deal in his work, I think. Mrs. Bonner says that she even learned to type so that she could type his manuscripts for him. 'Oh, then he had to marry her,' said Miss Morrow sharply. 'That kind of devotion is worse than blackmail - a man has no escape from that.

Well, some books are destined never to be read,' said Mervyn. 'Its's the natural order of things.' Like women who are destined never to marry, though Ianthe.

Well, I shouldn't like my wife to do housework in the evenings, would you?' 'No, I suppose not, but women usually have their own way.

On the threshold of sixty,' mused Dr. Parnell. 'That's a good age for a man to marry. He needs a woman to help him into his grave.

You could consider marrying an excellent woman?' I asked in amazement. 'But they are not for marrying.' 'You're surely not suggesting that they are for the other things?' he said, smiling. That had certainly not occurred to me and I was annoyed to find myself embarrassed. 'They are for being unmarried,' I said, 'and by that I mean a positive rather than a negative state.

But wasn't that what so many marriages were—finding a person boring and irritating and yet loving him? Who could imagine a man who was never boring or irritating?

Marriage isn't necessarily the answer to all one's problems,' said Viola evasively, from which Dulcie concluded that he had not yet proposed to her.

And somehow I do not think we ever imagined the husbands to be quite so uninteresting as they probably were.

Piers was not to be considered at all, even had he been the kind of man who might marry.

this young man is quite unsuitable for Ianthe.' 'Ianthe?' he said suddenly realizing who Sophia was talking about. 'What does she want to get married for? Isn't she quite happy as she is in her charming little house?' 'No, that doesn't seem to be enough,' said Sophia. 'We've both had this picture of her which so pleasing and comfortable and all the time she's been wanting something more.

He must be about fifty-seven or fifty-eight,' said Harriet, who seemed to have been doing a little calculation. 'It will be nice to see dear Theo again.' 'On the threshold of sixty,' mused Dr. Parnell. 'That's a good age for a man to marry. He needs a woman to help him into his grave.

Love is a handful of seeds, marriage the garden, and like your gardens, Paula, marriage requires total commitment, hard work, and a great deal of love and care. Be ruthless with the weeds. Pull them out before they take hold. Bring the same dedication to your marriage that you do to your gardens and everything will be all right. Remember that a marriage has to be constantly replenished too, if you want it to flourish...

He gains strength from the myth of his wife's incompetence.

The safest way to live is first, inherit money, second be born without a taste for liquor, third, have a legitimate job that keeps you busy, fourth, marry a wife who will cooperate in your sexual peculiarities, fifth, join some big church, sixth, don't live too long.

passion for Sybil, wife of a lord of Lorraine, Enguerrand

If you want a dull life, don't marry a redhead.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?