Married Life Quotes

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

A child deserves to be loved but never to be maltreated.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Men marry. Women wed.

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

All things are made beautiful at a timely hour.

The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

Marriage can bore you but there is a fortitude that comes from it, too. When you need to lean on it, you are so thankful that you can.

Any marriage that exists without a sound level of unconditional love, shouldn't be called a marriage in the first place.

For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.

Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory.

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.