143 Quotes About Married-life

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation.

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.

The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line between desire and temptation. Where did she draw the line? When did she admit defeat and surrender?