Quotes About Expectations

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Heiresses are never jilted.

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere