C. S. Lewis Quotes

If any wife behaves badly, her husband may whip her. But then they shall look each other in the face and laugh together, and have no more ill will.

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

I have a very intense marriage.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

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.

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple.

Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Men want to make women happy.

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.