As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you've offered today.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

She is always married too soon, who gets a bad husband, and she is never married too late, who gets a good one.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather.

Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

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

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

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