Quotes About Marriage

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.

... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.

The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."

The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

For the sake of your marriage, get a king-size bed. And if you really want to stay married, get two.

At least it's better to be married than to be dead.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Alexia figured, delightedly, that this meant he did, in fact, tend to traipse around his private apartments in the altogether. Marriage was becoming more and more of an attractive prospect.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

Plural marriage is not essential to salvation or exaltation.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.