My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
My wife, the star I steer by.
This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.
A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say. Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.
I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.
What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family.
Never tell. Not if you love your wife. . . In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die. ' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.
At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning.
A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.