Quotes About Expectations

Every mans dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.

Although marriages traditionally begin with I do, when they fail they invariably end with You dont.

Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if it was going to be just a walk in the park.

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness

There are many women who are happy to be married, but only a few who are married happily.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I talk marriage; they talk weddings!

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred

There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman - before marriage and after marriage

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.