What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.
Obviously I couldn’t have done anything that I’ve done without Michelle… not only has she been a great first lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day.
Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
He didn’t dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you’re married to because it is a hard road.
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
I am a black American male from Chicago, who had my rehearsal dinner at Versailles and then got married in Florence with a view of the entire city.
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
[on Michelle] A dedicated mom, a good friend, and someone who’s not afraid to poke a little fun at herself from time to time
It was a very meaningful ceremony and marriage means a lot to me.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Call no man unhappy until he is married.
The greatest day of my life was the day I married Mrs. Ford.
