Quotes on Marriage

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

The curse of marriage_x000D_ _x000D_ That we can call these delicate creatures ours_x000D_ _x000D_ And not their appetites!

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

If music be the food of love, play on.

A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.