Quotes About Marriage

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

I never married because I was too easily boref. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

Listen to me: I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.

I think we should get married here, I say. It's so obvious. Naomi sits down on the top stair, the edge of our corner, and rests her head against the wall. Ely, she says, we're never getting married. Never.

Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone.

I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina. Carson said, Lucky for you, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I will acknowledge you really do an exhaustive job cleaning the bedroom.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life.

Throughout their seven years of marriage, they had conducted their lives by different clocks. She dwelled as much in the future as in the present, envisioning where she wished to go, relentlessly mapping the path that ought to lead to her high goals. Her strong mainspring was wound tight. Neil lived in the moment. To him, the far future was next week, and he trusted time to take him there whether or not he planned the journey. They

At forty-four, though bitter, she was nonetheless grateful that she hadn't been rendered penniless. Having clawed her way to the top once before, she'd been left with just enough assets to start the climb again. This time she would not make the mistake that had led to her ruin; she would not marry.

Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

Helen Mainway, Charlie's wife

Why not? For your information I'm hoping it doesn't last more than a month or two myself.? His words stung as sharply as a slap across the face. Maybe by that time you'll be miserable enough to be willing to marry me-

A successful marriage isn't finding the right person, it's being the right person.

But she was wrong. Loneliness was insidious. It knew no border or boundary, was without mercy, and couldn't be bribed. That was what Mary had attempted to do, bargain with the deep well of pain within her by marrying a man who by his own word would never love her.

if he'd learned anything in his four-year marriage it was that women were rarely practical when it came to matters of the heart.

Marriage is one of the most important decisions in anyone's life, so it should be deeply felt decision. It should feel inevitable. It's the union of two lives, after all. So you can't simply check your watch and announce 'it's time.

They hadn't been married long and she hated to disillusion him so soon. Once he met the family, he might well have serious doubts about her, and the truth was, she wouldn't blame him.

I don't think you need to worry about me marrying Jack," she assured him. He parked at the curb and cut the engine and then said the oddest thing. "Good." Good? He didn't want her to remarry? What a strange reaction, considering that he'd been married to Marge for fourteen years.

But at twenty-eight, Justine had revealed no desire to marry.

The pastor made a funny comment. He said that when he taught marriage classes most of those attending took naps. It was the divorce classes where everyone took notes.

Husbands and wives

A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.

No man has ever crawled out from under his wife's criticism to be a better man—no matter how justified her condemnation.