941 private quotes tagged marriage

“My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.” — Rita Rudner

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“Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.” — Eddie Cantor

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“I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.” — Rose Kennedy

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“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.” — Jean Giraudoux

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“Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.” — Loretta Lynn

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“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.” — Joseph Joubert

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“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.” — Peter De Vries

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“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.” — Ogden Nash

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“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.” — Helen Rowland

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“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.” — George Santayana

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“I like getting married, but I don't like being married.” — Don Adams

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“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.” — Alphonse Karr

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“Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?” — Katherine Heigl

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“It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.” — Jasmine Guy

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“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.” — Jean Rostand

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“Love is often the fruit of marriage.” — Moliere

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“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.” — Helen Rowland

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“On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.” — Emma Goldman

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“Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.” — Jack Kingston

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“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.” — Prince Philip

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“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.” — Andre Maurois

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“Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.” — W. H. Auden

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“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” — Simone Signoret

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