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.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar – a practice which is still continued.
I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.
The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they’re too old to do it.
But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, ‘Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.’
I don’t think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
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.
I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
I refused David Letterman’s proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
