Quotes About Responsibility

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.

A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

Marriage is about raising children. That's the purpose of the institution.

No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

As marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.

Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage

Many marriage tragedies are caused, not by lack of money, but rather by the mismanagement of it.

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.