Marriage Reality Quotes

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

I read somewhere that Mitt and I have a 'storybook marriage.' Well, in the storybooks I read, there were never long, long, rainy winter afternoons in a house with five boys screaming at once. And those storybooks never seemed to have chapters called MS or breast cancer.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

I'm not the perfect bride after all.

Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.

Marriage will not change your spouse. It will not make him or her more mature, more loyal to you, or better at housework.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.

There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.

I don't think it's easy to be married to anyone.

Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

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.

Take it from me, marriage isn't a word - it's a sentence.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.