Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

My parents always used to ask me to settle down, and I could never understand that term. However, after marriage, I have finally realised the importance of having a companion.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

I feel a man, when married, becomes more balanced. All the extra-curricular activities are done away with. The focus is on work and family.

Nobody can tell you how to be a good wife or husband.

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

Determine that there will never be anything that will come between you that will disrupt your marriage. Make it work. Resolve to make it work.

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

It turns out that a husband who does the laundry, it's very romantic when you're older. And it's hard to believe when you're younger. But it's absolutely true.

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.

I like being married. I like taking care of people, having someone to make dinner for.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

When you find the person that you settle down with, I guess you mellow. They are taming you, aren't they? Or you're taming them.