“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage is a long conversation, and these quotes capture many of its chapters — the romance, the compromise, the arguments, the inside jokes, and the deep comfort of being truly known by another person over decades.
“I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage.”
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
“Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.”
“A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.”
“I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.”
“All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.”
“Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.”
“I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.”
“Love, the quest marriage, the conquest divorce, the inquest.”
“Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.”
“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.”
“My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.”
“I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.”
“Marriage is a religious and state issue.”
“Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.”
“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”