My father was very big on marriage.
I didn’t think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable – that it was something they just put up with for their children.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests.
Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
If you’ve gone into a marriage and you haven’t been clear about how you’re going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you’ve set yourself up for failure.
With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
For a while I didn’t believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I’m not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that’s possible.
We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
No one can understand how close a marriage actually is. You just don’t know: with a husband and wife, they have a special connection.
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
‘Marley and Me’ was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
I’m also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed.
Take this marriage thing seriously – it has to last all the way to the divorce.
I’m in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that’s not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Be it career or marriage, spirituality helps you believe in yourself.
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis’s relationship could not sustain.
I think the key to marriage is find your best friend.
There’s something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple’s first meeting.
I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.
