Quotes on Married Life

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

The chief cause of unhappiness in married life is that people think that marriage is sex attraction, which takes the form of promises and hopes and happiness - a view supported by public opinion and by literature. But marriage cannot cause happiness. Instead, it is always torture, which man has to pay for satisfying his sex urge.

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

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

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Inventors don't have time for married life.

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out of phase. From snails to hardware stores to married life. Maybe no one finds it, or even misses it, but fairness is like love. What is given has nothing to do with what we seek.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.