Married Life Quotes
Martha Gellhorn
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
3651P.G. Wodehouse
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
3721 Clint Eastwood
They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.
2827 Stephen King
A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.
3172 Michel De Montaigne
[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.
4579 Jacob M. Appel
Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.
2181 Callie Hunter
The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?
1706 Amen Muffler
The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.
4721 Antonia Fraser
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.
1197 Jess C. Scott
It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
3739 Christine De Pizan
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
1997 John Le Carré
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.
4793 Ellen Tien
Marriage can bore you but there is a fortitude that comes from it, too. When you need to lean on it, you are so thankful that you can.
3181 Edmond Mbiaka,
Any marriage that exists without a sound level of unconditional love, shouldn't be called a marriage in the first place.
3243 Shon Mehta
For me, marriage worked differently. As a single person, I never felt totally free. My commitment to my marriage freed me. No lies, no mind games, no judging each other. For me, marriage is pure joyful companionship.
4721 Raheel Farooq
Couples tend to think that being single is always singular. Singles tend to believe that being a couple is always copulatory.
3273 Oscar Wilde
You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.
4317 Marabel Morgan
The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.
3577 Molly Antopol
... having been with Boaz for so long that she could predict every one of his moves, their sex life was more like a race to see who came first.
4893 Muriel Spark
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...
3199 Jakob Wasser Mann
The actual person with whom you live is bound to be, in a curiuos way, invisible, in just the same way as yourself, are invisible; all you can do is sense their presence, feel them within you, and in turn expand in them. The word love, comapred to that has little meaning.
2097 Lailah Gifty Akita
A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?
1982 Lailah Gifty Akita
My greatest privilege is being married to a gentle loving husband. I am very grateful God made our path cross.
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