Some couples are married because they fell in love. Some are married because the woman fell pregnant.

When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.

LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn’t talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked...

God is great and God is good,” Lisa says. “But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, I´d insisted...

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn’t cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn’t...

There’s the emotional work that comes with living with someone who’s not you and who therefore has different preferences ans styles of communicating. She might prefer to talk for three days straight if that’s what...

There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when...

Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature...

First, they set the hook with mind-bending kinky shit. Then a year later you’re living in a Talking Heads song, dressed like Teddy Ruxpin, living with a strange woman in a big house full of...

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Things were different back then. Today if a woman was asked to do the things we did back then, she would revolt, declare that she wasn’t anyone’s slave, wouldn’t be put upon in that fashion....

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will...

It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom.

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot...

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

You’re 82 years old. You’ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you’re still beautiful, graceful and desirable. We’ve lived together now for 58 years and I love you more than ever. I...

She suggested we ‘crouch’ buck nekkid on the bed or a dresser and leap out at him from the shadows.Now, my husband can’t see all that well in the dark. I think if he comes...

He who marries for money earns it.

In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church’s teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings...

He was perfectly capable of looking after himself, although after his marriage he had lost the knack for it. He missed the comfort of all the small things Charlotte did for him,but these were nothing...

The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists. It...

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden...

A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.

I needed him like I needed air to breathe.

Her magnificence is deeper than skin.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed … or find a still greater man to marry her. … The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he...

If he’s getting married, he’s not longer interesting.

Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded...

Not until you’re bind together with a more pure and sincere relationship, the love you feel to each other will never become something tangible – Sarah

We’re taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you’re the rule, not the exception. It’s liberating. But we...

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

Marriage is a responsibility, not a swimming pool you can jump into and then just go out of afterwards

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

I want to get married. But first I need to get a divorce.

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.

My wife and I make love every night, sometimes even to each other.

You can either feed negative thoughts or you can starve the suckers.

Maybe what my sister wanted was to stay here and get married and have a family.Maybe that was her color of extraordinary.

In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible...

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

rapture” – words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

Maybe love, unfathomable love, was too much for people, so they had traded it for something easier.

He is but as the stubble of the field, and yet he has no beard.

As a house can be only be built satisfactorily and durably when there is a foundation, and a picture can be painted only when there is something prepared to paint it on, so carnal love...