Quotes with marriage

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

We have decided since I will be 60 in August and she just turned 50 last week, we probably are mature enough to handle marriage.

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage, but when you have this collective goal that is a human being, it's an inspiring rally point.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

I would advise any woman against having an affair with a married man believing he will ever leave his wife, no matter how often he says his wife does not understand him. Love is not as necessary to a man's happiness as it is to a woman's. If her marriage is satisfactory, a woman will seldom stray. A man can be totally contented and still be out howling at the moon.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

Adultery, Emma was discovering, could be as banal as marriage.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

Widowhood is a fringe benefit of marriage

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

I was told our marriage would be cursed. I thought, 'Don't let this be true'. I've thought about it since, too. I try to put it out of my mind. It was an opinion given straight to my face by someone I trusted. 'You will never be happy', he said. 'Your marriage will end in disaster'.

Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men... Especially as regards the laws relating to marriage there should be the most absolute equality between the two sexes. I do not think the woman should assume the man's name.

I believe marriage to be the best and most important relation that can exist between two human beings.

It's in the fight, in the striving, in the mountains unclimbed that fulfillment lies, so if you have nothing to strive for, you have nothing to make you happy. When it comes to "for better" or "for worse," "for better" is often harder on a marriage.

You tend to have far more real, intense friendships when you are single, perhaps because you can be more honest when you do not have the marriage or someone else's feelings to protect.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

In love, we are poets; in marriage, we are philosophers.

Forgive me, but if someone had told me two decades ago that by 2012, a black president would be endorsing gay marriage, I would have asked where he got that stuff he was smoking.

I found, much to my relief, that all I needed for my emotional and personal security was my own resolve and determination. I didn't need a marriage and a ring. I had come to realize all too quickly that Leonard Kovner was not a man I could ever really love.

I've been a lucky lady. I've had three exciting careers. Before films I had the experience of competitive swimming, with the incredible fun of winning. ... I had a movie career with all the glamor that goes with it. That was ego-fulfilling, but it was like the meringue on the pie. My marriage with Fernando — that was the filling, that was the apple in the pie.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.