[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Wallace StegnerTags: perception marriage inequality husbands wives apology matrimony inferiority
There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.
Wallace StegnerTags: happiness love marriage togetherness harmony support matrimony married-life false-arches keystones
A young man married is a man that's marred.
William ShakespeareIn matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Samuel ButlerOh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!
Colley CibberTags: marriage matrimony wedding-ring
Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward BeecherFor marriage is like life in this—that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis StevensonTags: love war marriage battle matrimony bed-of-roses
That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.
Farahad ZamaTo prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments, mostly favorable. "I read his remarks again and again, many times [Catherine later recalled in her memoirs]. I impressed them on my consciousness and resolved to follow his advice. In addition, there was something else surprising: one day, while conversing with me, he allowed the following sentence to slip out: 'What a pity that you will marry! I wanted to find out what he meant, but he would not tell me.
Robert K. MassieTags: intelligence marriage self-determination independence self-knowledge coming-of-age matrimony royalty catherine-the-great
Bride, n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor happiness marriage satire matrimony brides
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