Quotes About Marriage

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

"What's for dinner?" is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Para un buen matrimonio hay que enamorarse muchas veces, siempre de la misma persona.

Cásate con la mujer que te quiera, aunque no la quieras tú. Es mejor casarte para que le conquisten a uno el amor que para conquistarlo.

One night there lowered into my mind one of those dark, sad, and mournful dreams which I cannot banish from my thoughts.. I dreamed that I was married, that I had a child, that this child died, and that over its body…I said to my wife: "Behold our love! Shortly it will decay: this is the way everything ends.

Pues decía que cuando uno se casa, si lo hace enamorado de veras, al principio no puede tocar el cuerpo de su mujer sin emberrenchinarse y encenderse en deseo carnal, pero que pasa tiempo, se acostumbra, y llega un día en que lo mismo le es tocar con la mano al muslo desnudo de su mujer que al propio muslo suyo; pero también entonces, si tuvieran que cortarle a su mujer el muslo, le dolería como si le cortasen el propio.

El matrimonio es un experimento… psicológico; la paternidad lo es… patológico.

Vra sa zica ti-i sot? — Da, mi-i sot. — S-acuma umbli dupa dansul? — Ce sa fac? Daca nu umbla el dupa mine, umblu eu dupa dansul.

It is in the company of friends that we can most clearly experience the freedom of the self and learn who we really are. The ideal of a modern marriage is to have one's spouse as a friend.

The same is true of all flow experiences: there is a mutual relationship between goals and the effort they require. Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal. One gets married because the spouse seems worthy of sharing one's life with, but unless one then behaves as if this is true, the partnership will appear to lose value with time. All

Peasant women in Eastern Europe, for instance, were not judged to be ready for marriage unless they had learned to cook a different soup for each day of the year.

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

I've been struck by lightning several times. Three, to be exact: once in high school, once in college, the last time afterward. None of them was my wife, by the way. You don't marry the girl who strikes you like lightning, because that doesn't last forever and you never know what you might be left with when it wears away.

Of course, it is almost always the case that the couple has much more in common than they may suppose. But marriage seems to specialize, at times, in radically de-emphasizing the similarities between the partners and wildly exaggerating the points of difference.

Seinfeld's a hit? Give him a wife, you've got Mad About You. Throw in some kids—it's Everybody Loves Raymond. Make it suck—and it's Home Improvement.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

When they stepped out of the taxi and approached the hotel lobby, she mustered up the courage to take Nick's hand. He quickly let go, frowning at her. "I thought we were supposed to be married," she said, a little hurt. "We are. Five years, Elaine. No married couple holds hands after five years.