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Quotes About Marriage

Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Al principio de nuestro matrimonio, mi esposo me dijo que yo era una de las personas más valientes que conocía. Cuando le pregunté por qué, me dijo que porque era una cobarde total, pero a pesar de todo seguía adelante y hacía las cosas.
~ Pema Chodron
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
~ Jane Austen
My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.
~ Bill Engvall
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm married to an artist. I get a lot of inspiration from art, from the lighting in art, from the compositions in art, from the textures, and all of that. I'm always playing with it.
~ Unknown
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
~ Billie Burke
My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead.
~ Jenny Offill
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
~ John Milton
Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
~ Zoë Akins
Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no, " she said. "I can't even stay married.
~ Unknown
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
~ James Green Somerville
This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
~ Norman Fell
Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think?
~ Danielle Steel
I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone.
~ Danielle Steel
excuse never to get attached to anyone or tied down, except to my work. It would be a constant tug-of-war to be a married butler, or one with children. I know some people do it now, and live out
~ Danielle Steel
We were kids in college with no responsibilities. It takes more than a wedding to make a marriage," she said sadly.
~ Danielle Steel
Look what he married. Would you want to be her? She's a nice woman, but her greatest accomplishment is making three-dimensional snowflakes and Easter bunnies from Martha Stewart's book. Come on, Fiona, you don't want to be that.
~ Danielle Steel
Sadly enough, one rarely marries the candlelight and champagne. One marries instead the blue jeans and rumpled t-shirts, the Coca Cola and burnt toast, and one puts away the candlelight and champagne in a magic box. In the long run, I guess Coca Cola and burnt toast are easier to live with
~ Danielle Steel
The other big con is whether having sex could cause me to more than just like like Guy. But that could happen even if we don't sleep together. You don't even need to date a boy to dream about marrying him.
~ Daria Snadowsky
All I mean is that, hypothetically, why would we need to see anyone else? And as long as we're going out and happy, wouldn't marriage be the goal, even if it's a decade away? 'Cause if it's not, all this is pointless.
~ Daria Snadowsky
When Larten heard that Alicia had married, he felt both jealousy and delight. A selfish part of him had hoped she'd mourn for him the rest of her life. But mostly he was happy that she'd found someone who could give her all that he had failed to provide.
~ Darren Shan
But besides, I haven't the time, I'm too busy trying to see that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.
~ Dashiell Hammett