“It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.”
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.
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
“It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.”
“I'd love to have First Lady Michelle Obama over and ask, 'How do you make your marriage work?' I think the president is sexy as all get-out, but he has got to get on her nerves some kind of way. He's this wonderful, powerful man, but she sees him leaving his socks on the floor.”
“I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.”
“There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.”
“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”
“My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.”
“Marriage changes everything.”
“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.”
“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
“I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.”
“Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.”
“I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.”
“I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.”