Top Married Life Quotes

The Dictionary defines Soul Mate as: A person who is perfectly suited to another in temperament. Before I met mine, I didn't know I was bonkers!

Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you ignorantly worship: in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Sir, your god, your gre...

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down. I suppose it is; and y...

[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,...

We ate our liver and spinach while watching the right honorable gentlemen of the British House of Commons yelling at each other about the Iraq invasion on C-SPAN. And it was damned good. It was good b...

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 volcanoe...

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

Men marry. Women wed.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two...

Often, the bonds of marriage kill the purpose of the very marriage.

The volume of your muscles doesn't make you a good husband. The way you treat her does.

The apartment is a laboratory in which we conduct experiments, perform research on each other. We discover Henry hates it when I absentmindedly click my spoon against my teeth while reading the paper...

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...