Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.
It is not we as individuals, then, who must bend uncomfortably around the institution of marriage; rather, it is the institution of marriage that has to bend uncomfortably around us.
A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.
A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.
My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended an...
Marriage is a snake to slip into your handbag.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Marriage teaches you to live alone.
Marriages are not as they are made, but as they turn out.
Marriage has teeth and it bites hard.
Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.
There is, however, one way of speaking that I've tried to avoid. Rather than refer to someone as "a homosexual," I've taken care always to make "gay" or "homosexual" the adjective, and never the noun, in a longer phrase, such as "gay Christian" or "h...
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.
Same-sex marriage is not the future.
It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.
I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.
A written man is more porous and accessible than a live one.
An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.
