Marriage

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning handsprings or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

It isn’t tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it’s separating himself from all the others.

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, appreciated a little.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Marriage is a great institution—but I’m not ready for an institution.

Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: routine.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances at any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

CHUMPS ALWAYS MAKE THE BEST HUSBANDS… ALL THE UNHAPPY MARRIAGES COME FROM THE HUSBANDS HAVING BRAINS.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Wishing each other, not divorced, but dead; They lived respectably as man and wife.

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

The quickest way to make a million? Marry it.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she’s a householder.

In married life three is company and two none.

Marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.