Quotes About Marriage

Oh, come, darling,' Guy protested, 'I didn't want to marry Sophie, but one has to be polite.

The Pringles had been married less than a week. Though she would have claimed to know about him everything there was to be known, she was now beginning to wonder if she really knew anything.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

I had sees there was joy-lights in her eyes and the looks he looked at her was like the looks the young husband of Dear Love does look at her when he is come home from work.

Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

Not long afterwards we were married. The joy I obtained as a result of this action was not necessarily great or savage, but the suffering which ensued was staggering—so far surpassing what I had imagined that even describing it as "horrendous" would not quite cover it. The "world," after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a single then-and-there decision.

Without mutual respect, there can be no true nuptial bond.

Across from me four or five salarymen who all looked about the same age were just sitting there. They must have been around 30. I didn't like any of them. Their eyes were empty and dull. They had no vigor. But now, if I so much as grinned at them, I could very well be dragged off by one of these men, falling into the chasm of compulsory marriage. A mere smile can determine a woman's fate. It is frightening. Fascinatingly so. I have to be careful.

That one's a wife, he began, and she knows only two ways to live—either she's the husband's boss or else his toy.

Men speak words that sound quite grand, but all the while they spend their days concerned about predicting the thoughts of their adorable little wife. Whether it is prosperity, success, or victory—these ambitions come from the desire to please that single, beautiful wife. They add all kinds of logic to it and work hard at it, but all they want is to be praised.

Ama içlerinden birine ufac?k da olsa gülümsersem, sadece bu bile adamlardan birinin beni kendine e? olarak seçmesi ve benim zorla evlendirilmem anlam?na gelebilir. Bir kad?n?n kaderine karar vermek için bir gülümseme yetip de art?yor.

Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.