Quotes About Marriage

suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

If you don't make it home, I'm marrying the butcher. Love Nadine

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

marrying a free man did not mean Harriet became free, too.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. It took me years to lose her again after that. She was a good woman. It is not easy to lose a good woman. If one must marry it is better to marry a bad woman.

Is confidence based on a rate of exchange? We used to speak of sterling qualities. Have we got to talk now about a dollar love? A dollar love, of course, would include marriage and Junior and Mother's Day, even though later it might include Reno or the Virgin Islands or wherever they go nowadays for their divorces. A dollar love had good intentions, a clear conscience, and to Hell with everybody.

and I took her words as an insult and walked straight out and down the stairs and into the street. Is this the end, I wondered, playacting to myself? There's no need ever to go back. If I can get her out of my system, can't I find somewhere a quiet friendly marriage that would go on and on? Then perhaps I wouldn't feel jealous because I wouldn't love enough: I would just be secure, and my self-pity and hatred walked hand in hand across the darkening Common like idiots without a keeper.

Why don't you go back to your wife, then? ' ' It's not easy to live with someone you've injured.

This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves—it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

He never listened while his wife talked.

Even a happy marriage is a thing of slow growth; love helps to make imperceptible the imprisonment of a man

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

There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.

The historical resentments and patterns that can demolish a marriage usually start out as something seemingly unimportant. An assumption here. An accommodation there. An omission, an unclear boundary, a selfish act, an inconsideration, etc. These little things, these seemingly tiny tremors, have a rolling aftershock that can gain significant magnitude over time.

Just remember this. Every man you have ever dated who has said he doesn't want to get married or doesn't believe in marriages, or has issues with marriage, will, rest assured, someday be married. It just will never be with you. Because he's really not saying he doesn't want to get married. He's saying he doesn't want to get married to you.

Marrying someone you don't love is a sin. Because it sends both of you to hell. It destroys the other person first, but in the end it gets you, too. The magnitude of what you've done, the damage you've caused by forcing you both to live a lie.

Randy had an inkling that something else was afoot. Shelly's father appeared too eager to pass his daughter off to another man.

Mary Kay would come home after being two hours late and sit in her car for a half hour and go through mail and papers, and I'd be just sitting there waiting to go home. After the kids were sleeping... I was just sitting there. She would irritate me. ~Angie

It didn't take too much longer for Randy to decide that he couldn't take it anymore—no matter how much he loved Nikki, he couldn't ignore that his marriage, which had started on tenuous grounds, was now falling apart.

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes