Quotes About Marriage

Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

A young bride is like a plucked flower but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress. Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work, although it is proof of deep inferiority in a man if he cannot make his wife his mistress. Seeking variety is a sign of impotence.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time.

Es mucho más fácil quedar bien como amante que como marido; porque es mucho mas fácil ser oportuno e ingenioso de vez en cuando que todos los días

Parent may hinder their children's marriage; but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.

Remain a bachelor for the next thirteen years; amuse yourself like a lost soul; then, at forty, on your first attack of gout, marry a widow of thirty-six. Then you may possibly be happy. If you now take a young girl to wife, you'll die a madman.

Could it be that my father, instead of spending this money in arranging a marriage for me, would have left me to die in the convent? This was the first thought to greet me on the threshold of my home.

a mere nothing in your eyes, though three times the dowry of an archduchess of Austria. Bonaparte received only two hundred and fifty thousand francs with Maria-Louisa." "Maria-Louisa was the ruin of Bonaparte," muttered Mathias.

In 1816 she was twenty-five years old. She knew nothing of marriage; her conception of it was wholly that of thought; she judged it in its causes instead of its effect, and saw only its objectionable side. Her superior mind refused to make the abdication by which a married woman begins that life; she keenly felt the value of independence, and was conscious of disgust for the duties of maternity.

Married life is full of these sacred hours, which perhaps owe their indefinable charm to some vague memory of a better world. A divine radiance surely shines upon them, the destined compensation for some portion of earth's sorrows, the solace which enables man to accept life. We seem to behold a vision of an enchanted universe, the great conception of its system widens out before our eyes, and social life pleads for its laws by bidding us look to the future.

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

The bonds between husband and wife spring from deep laws of destiny and should not be broken lightly.

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

A son is a son until he takes him a wife; a daughter is a daughter for all of her life.

He could find hatred in his heart for her, too, if he went looking for it. The secret of a happy marriage was not to go looking for it.

Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times.

Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other.

How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?

The only woman who deserved a philandering husband was a philandering wife.

It was good to remember that for every horrible memory from her marriage, there was also a happy one. She wanted to see it clearly, to understand that it wasn't all black, or all white. It was a million colors. And yes, ultimately it hadn't worked out, but that was okay. Just because a marriage ended didn't mean that it hadn't been happy at times. She thought about that