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The curse
which lies upon marriage is that too often the
individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in
their strength -- each asking from the other instead of
finding pleasure in giving.
Simone de Beauvoir |
A good wife always forgives her husband when
she's wrong.
Milton
Berle |
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman
can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is
in her.
Agatha
Christie |
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself
would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge |
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue
to a very dull play.
William
Congreve |
My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was
our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with
me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I
live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the
shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since
I have parted from my dear.
Robert
Creeley |
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in
love with a personality and must live with a
character.
Peter
De Vries |
When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not
just talking about physical attraction, which I can
imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has
built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
Betty
Ford |
Marriage has for women many equivalents of
joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in
life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The
boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find
joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness
of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and
dedicating their energies and substance to its
advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and
meaning.
Eric
Hoffer |
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than
when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and
wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their
friends.
Homer |
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
Abraham Lincoln |
I never wanted to get married. The last thing I
wanted was infinite security and to be the place an
arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement
and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the
colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath |
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By
just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold his
dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a
better bargain driven.
Sir
Philip Sidney |
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are
mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more
perfect world, or even with a little more care in this
very imperfect one) both partners might be found more
suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you
are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien |
It is well within the order of things
That man
should listen when his mate sings;
But the true male
never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate
talked.
Anna
Wickham |
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