Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned. . . . They may just have something there. . . . If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.
My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages - although I could probably say this about any marriage - are about the triumph of hope over experience. I think that's true. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
I've never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple - gay or straight - should be able to get married.
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
Who are we, this government or this country, to redefine the term marriage that has meant one man and one woman across cultures, across ages, across geographical barriers since before state and religion themselves?
I've always wanted to be independent and answer for myself. That probably is the part of me I would class to be feminist. I'd like to have children; marriage I have a bit of an issue with.
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.
Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
Because love is dangerous, insecure. . . . And nobody knows where love will lead. It is just like a cloud - moving with no destination. Love is a hidden cloud, whereabouts unknown. Nobody knows where it is at any moment of time. Unpredictable - no astrologer can predict anything about love. About marriage? - astrologers are very, very helpful; they can predict.
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.
When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.
To marry a woman with any success a man must have a total experience of her, he must come to see her and accept her in time as well as in space. Besides coming to love what she is now, he must also come to realize and love equally the baby and the child she once was, and the middle-aged woman and the old lady she will eventually become.
As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families.
After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms. . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.