Quotes About Marriage

I married the man of my dreams in 1998.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

Some men would rather be photographed with their fish than with their wives.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony -- but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

There is nothing a Man of good Sense dreads so much in a Wife, as her having more Sense than himself.

A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.

Well-married, a man is winged: ill-matched, he is shackled.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Objectively" Stan was 100 percent right. At the same time, however, he was 100 percent tin-eared when it came to his wife's subjective experience. Worse, every time Lucy tried to tell him what bothered her, every time she tried to bridge the gap between them, Stan only retreated more staunchly into his precious rightness.

Women marry men hoping they will change. They don't. Men marry women hoping they won't change. They do.

We all marry our unfinished business. We all marry our mothers and fathers. And in our closest relationships, we become our mothers and fathers.

My wife, the family therapist Belinda Berman

Women are unhappy in their marriages because they want men to be more related than most men know how to be. And men are unhappy in their marriages because their women seem so unhappy with them.

the most reliable predictor of long-term marital success was a pattern in which the wives, in nonoffensive, clear ways, communicated their needs, and husbands willingly altered their behaviors to meet them.

What'll it be?" Steve asked me, just days after our wedding. "Do we go on the honeymoon we've got planned, or do you want to go catch crocs?" My head was still spinning from the ceremony, the celebration, and the fact that I could now use the two words "my husband" and have them mean something real. The four months between February 2, 1992--the day Steve asked me to marry him--and our wedding day on June 4 had been a blur.