More quotations tagged with “marriage”
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
—Rita Rudner
This had always frightened her about marriage: how satisfied married people seemed, how unable they were to ask for more. She couldn't imagine feeling satisfied.
—Brit Bennett in The Mothers
I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.
—Isabel Gillies in Happens Every Day
The fact is, being married to your job for some portion or all of your life, even if it does in some way inhibit romantic prospects, is not necessarily a terrible fate, provided that you are lucky enough to enjoy your work, or the money you earn at it, or the respect it garners you, or the people you do it with.
—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
—Voltaire