MARRIAGE QUOTES II
quotations about marriage
Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Whatever
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex
To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex
Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: "Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Love in the Time of Cholera
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
BETTY JANE WYLIE
Family: An Exploration
When a man marries a woman, they become one--the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
Marriage is a tyranny.... Surely it is simply the keeping of a devil in a mob-cap!
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Marriage and Single Life", Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
EDITH WHARTON
letter, February 12, 1909
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
PAUL REISER
Couplehood
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up.
OGDEN NASH
Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband
Little disputes before marriage are great ones after it; as northerly winds, which are warm in summer, blow keen and cold in winter.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust
Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep going you have to renew. Wouldn't that be kind of genius? It would force you both to look at the relationship, and if it's not working, the marriage would expire so you could go on your merry way, or on the positive side of it, you could look at each other and say we really want to renew. What a way to keep it fresh!!
JENNY MCCARTHY
Life Laughs
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Man and Superman
Nobody's ready for marriage. Marriage makes you ready for marriage.
DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH
Passionate Marriage
No, there are three people in a marriage, there's the woman, there's the man, and there's what I call the third person, the most important, the person who is composed of the man and woman together.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
All the Names