Quotes on Marriage

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

In a good relationship, people get angry, but in a very different way. The Marriage Masters see a problem a bit like a soccer ball. They kick it around. It's 'our' problem.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Above all never forget that a marriage is in one way very much like a newspaper. It has to be made fresh every damn day of every damn year.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

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

Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.