MARRIAGE QUOTES II
quotations about marriage
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
PAUL NEWMAN
Paul Newman: A Life in Pictures
Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Whatever
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
BETTY JANE WYLIE
Family: An Exploration
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
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
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
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
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
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Parerga and Paralipomena
Some day, some day men and women will rise, they will reach the mountain peak, they will meet big and strong and free, ready to receive, to partake, and to bask in the golden rays of love. What fancy, what imagination, what poetic genius can foresee even approximately the potentialities of such a force in the life of men and women. If the world is ever to give birth to true companionship and oneness, not marriage, but love will be the parent.
EMMA GOLDMAN
"Marriage and Love", Anarchism and Other Essays
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
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
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
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Talk and Talkers
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The Life of Reason
Marriage is a tyranny.... Surely it is simply the keeping of a devil in a mob-cap!
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of 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
The horrors of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
MARQUIS DE SADE
L'Histoire de Juliette, ou les Prospérités
To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex
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