Quotes on Marriage

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

And this has been man's stupidity - a very ancient one: whenever he gets into difficulty, he changes the word. Change the word marriage into soul mates, but don't change yourself. And you are the problem, not the word; any word will do. A rose is a rose is a rose...you can call it by any name. You are asking to change the concept, you are not asking to change yourself.

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me.

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

If you will make your first concern the comfort, the well-being, and the happiness of your companion, sublimating any personal concern to that loftier goal, you will be happy, and your marriage will go on through eternity

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

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

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.