A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
—Helen Rowland
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
—Andy Rooney
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
—Gloria Steinem
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
—Douglas William Jerrold
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
—Will Rogers
The trouble with many married people is that they are trying to get more out of marriage than there is in it.
—Elbert Hubbard
My wife said she'd like to have sex in the backseat of the car… and she wanted me to drive.
—Rodney Dangerfield
The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.
—Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me.… It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships.… Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart.
—Wendell Berry
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
—George Eliot
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put "unwed" or "welfare" in front of it?
—Florynce Kennedy
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.
—Gillian Flynn in Gone Girl
Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
—Nicholas Sparks in The Best of Me
My great-grandfather… came to Washington with the Union Army during the Civil War. He stopped at my great grandmother's house to get some water and she was the one who handed him the glass of water. He put his hand over hers, and then he got off the horse, and after that, they got married.
—Helen Tenchi