Marriage Quotes
It is better not to be married than to be married unhappily. Women do not need to be married to have rich, fulfilled lives.
Marriage is the chance to put away the trappings of a single life and concentrate on making one good thing work really well.
There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage: If you don`t respect the other person, you`re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don`t know how to compromise, you`re gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can`t talk openly about what goes on between you, you`re gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you don`t have a common set of values in life, you`re gonna have a lot of trouble. Your values must be alike.
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
It`s the life-long companionship that matters. It`s the living together from day to day, not the sleeping together once or twice.
We are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives. You can consider your first marriage, which ended in divorce, to be a "failure," or you can view it as a circumstance that caused you to grow in ways that were crucial to your future happiness.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Some people find safety in the institution of marriage or some sort of a further commitment. Others think that if you`re in a very happy relationship, why mess with it?
I tell my friends married life is boring, but that`s just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone`s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.