Marriage

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

—Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

—Candice Bergen

All marriages are mixed marriages.

—Chantal Saperstein

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

—Clint Eastwood

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

—Diane Ackerman

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

—Edith Wharton

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

—Euripides

When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

—Euripides

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

—Helen Rowland

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

One man's folly is another man's wife.

—Jane Austen

I pay very little regard… to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

—Kathleen Norris

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

—Lawana Blackwell