Marriage Quotes

Marriage is a matter of more worth than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.[El problema del matrimonio es que se acaba todas las noches después de hacer el amor, y hay que volver a reconstruirlo todas las mañanas antes del desayuno.]

The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.[Recuerda siempre que lo más importante de un buen matrimonio no es la felicidad sino la estabilidad.]

A marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it.

Women who don’t marry wither up — they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don’t even know that they’re withering.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

Well, I really don’t advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.

We ought to believe in marriage as we believe in the immortality of the soul.

Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes.