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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.
God's word says for a man and a woman to be together, one man and one woman in the covenant of marriage to be together.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, 'It is not good for a woman to live alone.'
Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it
In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.
The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
Anything that you do in life, whether it's work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, 'You need to write a book because you've had a crazy life.'
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!
The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.
Part of the impetus for my writing is the pain I've seen my friends experience both in their marriage and in their dreams.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it's a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.
There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.
The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.