Henry Adams Quotes

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

The jobs don't get married. The people get married.

I love you. We’re getting married, and that’s the way it is. Get used to it.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

I did consider marriage and motherhood extreme and doomed commitments. Not out of any experience of them as such, but it was simply the way I looked at things.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

Reader, I married him.

Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.

You seem to be absolutely unaware of the phenomenon of marriage - which is destructive to both man and woman. Love is creative, marriage is destructive. But love is not dependable: this moment it may be there and the next moment gone. And man wants permanent things; he is obsessed with permanent things. He wants security, safety, he wants to cling. Hence love is not reliable, so he created marriage.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

Marriage is a very long process.

People are often enamored with my Super Bowl ring. But it's my wedding ring that I'm most proud of. And having a good marriage takes even more work than winning a Super Bowl.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.