Quotes on Marriage

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

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

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

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

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.