The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I’m not sure I’ve seen so many that will show it in the interest of showing a real marriage – one that ultimately succeeds.
Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It’s a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn’t work out, they can’t take that away from you.
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
Marriage is anti-romantic – husband and wife are terms like ‘turkey’ and ‘goose.’ Worse, they denote ownership.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.
I firmly believe in marriage. It’s a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you’re thinking about divorce. You shouldn’t get married.
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn’t believe in love. But marriage – that fits some people but obviously not me.
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything – in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.
I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, ‘I have to speak out.’
I couldn’t bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
I don’t think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn’t marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.
I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
I’m not ready to rush into marriage.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
I’m the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I’m not the same person at all. At all. I’ve buried a child, I’ve ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
I’ve always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
Getting divorced didn’t sour me on the institution of marriage. I’ll tell you what I’ll never do: I’ll never get divorced again.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings… and lawyers.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I’ve always thought that it’s counterproductive to have a theory on that.
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
