For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.
I believe passionately that the notion of having to work at a marriage is baloney. Making sacrifices and being a martyr makes one hell of a bad marriage.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married.
Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.
I think marriage is a scary concept. It’s a scary concept for anybody. I’m not sure where I sit with that.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
If you have a difficult marriage, it’s the hard times that make it better. If you have a relationship, it’s the hard times that actually make it better, and that goes for life as well.
It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine’s Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
I have never wanted a family. I don’t believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.
The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
It’s volatile, the marriage. Which one isn’t? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
