Quotes About Marriage

But we weren't married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted.

What she didn't know, what she took for granted about living with Karl and being a wife, was far larger than the things she could name.

It wasn't so much that she and Penn set out to practice Zen marriage equality and perfect-balance parenting. It was just that there was way more to do than two could manage, but by their both filling every spare moment, some of what needed to got done.

He held the landlordship of an inn to be the same as Shaw's definition of marriage – as something combining the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

What kind of a man thinks it's appropriate to give his soon-to-be bride a lethal weapon for a wedding present?

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.

I resent it being a truth universally acknowledged, no matter what era I find myself in, that a single woman of thirty must be in want of a husband.

It's bad enough to be a baby-making machine with no epidural in sight in exchange for the state-sanctioned title of 'Mrs' before one's name. But to be a 'Miss' with an ever-increasing brood of children, just waiting for the man to grow weary of stretch marks and spit-ups? No thank you?

Here is an unbroken space in which a woman and a man may with the full sanction of society, practically make love to each other with their eyes, their fleeting touch, and the display of their bodies. Emblem of marriage, indeed.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader, to make the reader listen to me, because most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage. I think what gives my works whatever universality they have is that they use the metaphysical secret world to describe some realities of the overt world.

and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.

My relationship with Dean was great, but ultimately it wasn't a fulfilling marriage for either of us.

Word of advice - don't let your father choose your wife. Choose your own. You have to live with her. Your father doesn't.

I'm going to make it very hard. I love you and I'm tired of being told what I should want and what I should do. You and I got married and I can stomp my foot and scream and rail at you because of the deal you made with my father, but the truth is I wouldn't have married you if I didn't want to". She took a deep breath. "And I don't think anyone. including my father, could have forced you to marry me. So, Mr. Megalos, consider yourself stuck with me.

You must appreciate that love is the last reason for which a man marries.

Nine. You have nine. With seven different women. How many of those women did you marry? Zero. How many of those children have your name? Zero. How many of those kids did you visit?

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

I was married to a Fascist and I was married to a Marxist and neither one of them ever took out the garbage.

A son is a son until he takes a wife; a daughter is a daughter all of your life.

a woman's life is endless work and suffering. There is suffering and then more suffering. It's better to expect it, you know. You're becoming a woman now, so you should be told this. For a woman, the man you marry will determine the quality of your life completely. A good man is a decent life, and a bad man is a cursed life?but no matter what, always expect suffering, and just keep working hard. No one will take care of a poor woman?just ourselves.

Someone wants to do a movie of my life now and he's writing a script, and I said to him, "What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years -- where's anything of interest to people?"

She had always been far too afraid of losing her husband, or more properly, the financial parasol North had maintained over her head.