Quotes About Marriage

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

No part of marriage is the exclusive province of any one sex.

Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.

Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.

In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business.

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.

Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

Even his own wife, Cindy, balked when learning of his actions. "I've heard how he is at work, and I wouldn't want to be around that," she said. "If he treated me that way, or the kids, we wouldn't be married.

Living in Seattle is like being married to a beautiful woman who's sick all the time.

Her own nose was too long and her facial structure too bony for anyone ever to have asked her hand in marriage. She consoled herself for this by guzzling.

At Clochemerle, the greater number of the men put up with their wives, and the great majority of the women with their husbands. If this hardly amounted to adoration, in the majority of homes at any rate the men and women found each other very nearly endurable.

Casi siempre oí opinar sobre el caso de matrimonios mal venidos en el sentido de que, si el marido falla, la mujer debe, pesar de todo, tolerarlo, sufrir y callar con tal de mantener la vida conyugal" (. ..) "yo vengo de una familia mal avenida; siempre creí que mi madre tenía que haber ahorrado los sufrimientos que le dio mi padre y haber salvado algo de felicidad para su vida

Though you cannot see him, you become aware of the fact that your father is sitting on the floor. He is folding cranes so that your mother can string them. This is marriage.

I told him I didn't want to have sex until I got married. Without missing a beat, he nodded and said, "So let's get married.

My grandmother was married for fifty-two years, until my grandfather died. She used to say that a bad marriage was one that hadn't had enough time to get good again.

I like all weddings, but isn't it particularly lovely when two grown-ups decide to get married?

You made quite an impression on the old man, by the way." "You mean Uncle Yuri?" "He said he'd marry you. If you weren't related. And if he were fifty years younger. Et cetera. Et cetera." "That a lot of very important 'ifs', Jacks.

Alabaster eyed Emily's still growing stomach. "How many months are you along now?" "Perhaps eleven. I'm not sure. Soon, I shall be able to roll from Upper Foglands to town." "I feel you have lived here longer than eleven months, and you were with child when you arrived. Is it possible your unborn child is waiting for you to be married?" "No, I could never have a child so conventional," Emily said.