Quotes About Marriage

Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones.

Never, never marry, my friend. Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the woman you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing…Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost.

I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.

James Patterson

Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he'll never write again. That's our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, you're married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who couldn't in a thousand years be a writer in the only meaning of the term, but who can and probably will write a book.

THERE ARE THINGS I LOVE ABOUT marriage. I love the familiarity of it," Nedra said. "It's like a tattoo. You wanted it at the time, you have it, it's implanted in your skin, you can't get rid of it. You're hardly even aware of it any more. I suppose I'm very conventional," she decided.

She is married. I suppose there are children. They walk together on Sundays, the sunlight falling upon them. They visit friends, talk, go home in the evening, deep in the life we all agree is so greatly to be desired.

She had lost interest in her marriage. There was nothing else to say. It was a prison. 'No, I'll tell you what it is , I'm indifferent to it . I am bored with happy couples. I don't believe in them. They're false.They're deceiving themselves.

Of Bryan, it might be said that he was candid about his wife and uncomplaining. He treated her offhandedly, as he might treat bad weather.

There were other houses that always brought images of an orderly life, kitchens with plain sideboards, old windows, the comforts of marriage in their common form, which at times surpassed everything—breakfast in the morning, conversations, late hours, and nothing that suggested excess or decay.

I was in the house alone. That's usually the case because I'm writing and my wife is out in the real world doing something of great value and being with actual people. People who are not tied down to a keyboard, monitor and chair calling out to people who aren't in the house.

The divorce rate in 1945 shot up to double that of the prewar years, to 31 divorces for every 100 marriages—or 502,000 in all. Although the divorce rate dropped in 1946 and returned to prewar levels by the early 1950s, its jump in 1945 exposed the rise of domestic tensions in the immediate aftermath of war.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

You'll never live to wed his niece. You'll only die to feed his geese.

All marriages are compromises, even down to the daily choice for dinner. No man is perfect, and no woman is perfect. How well they compromise—and accept and agree to those compromises—determines their level of happiness. As does the equitable share of power. If the balance is off, then the partner with more power must be more considerate. Otherwise, that partner may take advantage of the position.

Maybe instead of worrying about Shelly's marriage, she should examine her own.

Trust—a woman should trust the man she marries.

Bennett wasn't like her first husband. After spending so many years with Jeremy, Ivy was finally beginning to realize just how selfish her first husband had been. She had been the giver in the relationship, attending to his every need in the house.

It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

Expressions of gratitude were the "most consistent significant predictor of marital quality.

all the ways you can say yes, and sprinkle them throughout your daily marital interactions: Yes, that's a good idea. Yes, I'm totally on board. Yes, that looks fun. Couples who make a practice of doing this, he has said, are much more likely to go the distance.

Finally, many experts tell me that the best—some say only—way to teach one's husband to learn the ropes and appreciate the volume of work you do is often the technique that is least used: leave the damn house.

an avalanche of research shows that happy marriages can boost your health and wellbeing. People in positive long-term relationships have lower rates of heart disease, live longer, and are less likely to develop cancer.