Marriage Quotes

I have wedded her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not' eternal.

Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman.

The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.

Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

Papa said that I should never be jealous of another's marriage. Whatever joys I imagine them having are just my imaginings. The reality is far more complicated and vast.

Ain't never seen a ski trip fix a marriage.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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

One man's folly is another man's wife.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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

All marriages are mixed marriages.

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.