marital uncertainty Quotes

Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

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

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

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

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.

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families would not survive without two incomes, partly because they are not at all sure their marriages will last. The day of the husband as permanent meal-ticket is over, a fact most women recognize, however they feel about "women's liberation.

There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it was one of my goats.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

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

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