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.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
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.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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.
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.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
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.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
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.
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.
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.