Chris Rock Quotes

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

As far as being married and what it means to me... it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.

By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing."

My relationship with my wife is fraught with all of the problems that any couples face, but there is a sense of humor that we have about it and a real desire to want to make it better.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

Marriage can be complicated.

I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty dark, but in real life I'm very carefree. But when I'm happy, I ain't writing songs, I'm out having a laugh, being in love. I wouldn't have the time. If I ever get married, it'll be 'Darling, I need a divorce, it's been three years, I've got a record to write!'

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

The more Lord Maccon considered it, the more he grew to like the idea. Certainly his imagination was full of pictures of what he and Alexia might do together once he got her home in a properly wedded state, but now those lusty images were mixing with others: waking up next to her, seeing her across the dining table, discussing science and politics, having her advice on points of pack controversy and BUR difficulties. No doubt she would be useful in verbal frays and social machinations, as long as she was on his side.

I didn’t marry The One, I married this one, and the two of us became one.

It's a real gift when you find someone to share your life with.

If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

I think marriage is dangerous. The idea of two people trying to possess each other is wrong. I don't think the flare of love lasts. Your mind rather than your emotions must answer for the success of matrimony. It must be friendship - a calm companionship which can last through the years.

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.