Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder bribehouseholderhousekeeper Change image and share on social
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams askexpensivelot Change image and share on social
I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip. Joanna Lumley boyfrienddiscussdoctor share on social
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. Thomas Moore affairdiscoveremotion Change image and share on social
I didn't get married until I was forty because I wanted to be stable when I got married. I think I just avoided my first marriage and went right to the second. It's sort of how I see it. When you're young, just trying to make it, and trying to find your way in the world, and figure things out... being married is not easy. Kurt Fuller avoideasyfigure share on social
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. Samuel Richardson amendaptencouragingly Change image and share on social
I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you. Faith Evans acceptdealgotta share on social
A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.' Billy Collins characterelderlylast share on social
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen amateurbiblecontaminate share on social
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain. Ilan Stavans anglocivilizationcontinent share on social