Quotes About Marriage

For many Americans—probably most Americans—race remains an unspoken consideration in decisions about where to live, what schools to attend, what clubs to join, whom to marry, and what parts of town to avoid at night. The closer we look at how Americans live, the more clearly we see how much race continues to matter.

When she died of lung cancer a few years later, it felt like a malicious cosmic joke. When Grandpa married Margaret the fundamentalist Christian, that was the punch line.

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

She had met the man who was now her husband. He was seven foot three, and she was six foot two and a quarter. It was a match made perhaps not in heaven but certainly nearer the ceiling.

Are you married? Yes, I mumbled, that is to say - no. Come, come, said Havisham angrily. It is a simple enough question. I was married, I answered. Died? No, I mumbled, that is to say - yes. I'll try harder questions in future, announced Havisham, for you are obviously not adept at the easy ones.

Inspector Turner's hope to marry a wealthy Mr. Right and leave the service stayed just that—a hope—as so often Mr. Right turned out to be either Mr. Liar, Mr. Drunk or Mr. Already Married.

I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife

Marrying for love was not forbidden; it just didn't make any sense.

You're a good man." He smiled. "No, I'm an average man . . . with a truly extraordinary wife.

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.

Cf. pp. 448 ff. In an interesting article, "Make Your Marriage a Love Affair," Joyce Brothers makes the following correct observation: "…most people have no idea of the far-reaching consequences of a single change in behavior," Reader's Digest, March, 1973, p. 81.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's third wife Day.

Diana seemed content with her role of wife, too. Colby congratulated himself. He'd chosen well the second time around, even if he had chosen in haste again. He'd learned a lot about Diana in the past few months. She was a mature adult just as he was, and when she made a commitment, she kept it

Then why do you want to marry me?" she exploded. "For the usual reasons," he shot back. "Such as?" He slanted her a narrow look and made an obvious bid for his patience. "Such as the fact that we are very strongly attracted to each other, although I'll admit a casual onlooker might not think so if he saw us bickering like this.

Look at the positive side. To a man who is going to spend his wedding night alone, I would think that a live actress running around in the buff on stage would be a lot more interesting than an inflatable, anatomically correct doll." Stark gave her a thoughtful look. "Point taken.

Privately she thought she understood exactly why Pamela Bedford and Lindsay Mills had lost their nerve on the eve of marriage. It would take courage to marry Sam Stark.

Marriage is mostly a sucker bet Spoken by the woman with Dream Husband You just said Dream Husband might take a turn down the road and decide he wants to do a threesome or _ Me! Me! Peabody shot up a hand. Pick me! Eve & Peabody

With Parity, International Women's Day and, more recently, the Chiennes de Garde, and, more generally, with every claim to victimal difference, women are making themselves a collective laughing stock, alongside gays, with their demand for a bourgeois, legal, marital status.

So the puppy (the future George III) won't be bewolfenbütteled, he says. I'll teach him whether to defy me. I say he shall be bewolfenbütteled, and like it! (George II on a proposal to marry his grandson to a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Jean Plaidy.)

She is Creole girl, and she have the sun in her. Tell the truth now. She don't come to your house in this place England they tell me about, she don't come to your beautiful house to beg you to marry with her. No, it's you come all the long way to her house - it's you beg her to marry. And she love you and she give you all she have. Now you say you don't love her and you break her up. What you do with her money, eh?

We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married. 'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought.

He did not say so, but the words behind the words told me that he would rather have launched me into a good marriage than watch me row against the tide at my own work. It remains that a woman with an incomplete emotional life has herself to blame, while a man with no time for his heart just needs a wife.

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry.

A woman who slaves for a man does not have a marriage; she has a master.