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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Sep 10, 2025
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person.
Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
The first duty of love is to listen.
I've heard all the things - 'their marriage is not real,' 'he's gay,' 'she's gay,' 'they swing'. But at the end of the day, people have to believe what they have to believe. ... But I'll tell you what, it's too hard to be in a pretend marriage. Life's too short for that one.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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