The surest way to be alone is to get married.
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.
I am his awfully-wedded wife.
Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she bids you, I have bidden you. What service you render her, you are rendering me. What loyalty you give or withhold from her, you give or withhold from me!" -Royce Westmoreland
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
If and when we get married, only a completely opposite system will prevail.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Marriage, to tell the truth, is an evil, but it is a necessary evil.
Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea.
Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.
It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.
You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river.
