Top 100 After Marriage Quotes
#1. Bonnie and Annette for friendship. It had become clear shortly after her marriage to
Sam Giancana
#2. She was uncertain about taking his hand in marriage after he'd revealed to her that his deceased father was a big-time hustler, and his twin brother had taken over the family empire. She was scared.
Aleta L. Williams
#3. One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea - but why always Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage?
George Eliot
#4. After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.
Tim Johnson
#5. After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
Michel De Montaigne
#6. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.
D. Michael Quinn
#7. The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike
#8. A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus.
Ogden Nash
#9. Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.
Terry McMillan
#10. It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.
Julia Ward Howe
#11. There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.
Lynn Redgrave
#12. For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary Augusta Ward
#13. After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci
#14. he almost never spoke about himself, in my hearing at least: though once, shortly after his marriage, when he brought his wife to lunch with me, he said...looking at her across the grassy quadrangle, 'I never expected to have, in my sixties, the happiness that passed me by in my twenties.
Jocelyn Gibb
#15. Before marriage, we are carried along by the force of the in-love obsession. After marriage, we revert to being the people we were before we fell in love.
Gary Chapman
#16. Love makes reality invisible and no one around you can understand why you do the things you do, for something that can cause you so much pain. Because you know after all the fighting, tears, and uncertainty, it's all worth it.
Auliq Ice
#17. The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
Jeff Miller
#18. Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?
Howard Stringer
#19. Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
E. M. Forster
#20. I, Kotoko Aihara ... Now Kotoko Irie ... have finally become Irie-kun's wife. And though this may seem like a happy ending, it is actually more of a happy beginning.
Kaoru Tada
#21. On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman
#22. Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!
Madeline Kahn
#23. Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.
Ivana Trump
#24. A husband and wife found themselves in love with each other for the first time after twenty-seven years of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#25. Oddly enough you can get married and live happily ever after without spawning. Spawning is optional.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#26. Divorce sucks. Let me tell you, after five years of marriage, it is devastating to have the person with the good credit move out.
Rich Vos
#27. The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.
Alfred Kinsey
#29. After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.
Mark Twain
#30. It might do wonders for your marriage," Amelia continued. "It's lovely to talk to your husband after you've been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything." - Amelia to Poppy
Lisa Kleypas
#31. The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk.
Jonathan Lethem
#32. Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.
Molly Elliot Seawell
#33. 7 Principles of a Happy Marriage
Always listen
Be there
Compromise is necessary
Build up trust
A kiss before sleep, a kiss after waking
Never keep score
Do things together
Steven Aitchison
#34. TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives; it's like a marriage.
Joss Whedon
#35. Going through a divorce after twenty-five years of marriage was the most difficult time for me. It was challenging to reorient my life from being centered around family, a family home, and a long-term relationship.
Tim Matheson
#36. But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.
Elizabeth Strout
#37. I do think that marriage can be a wonderful thing if it's the right thing for the two people involved. I believe in love - very much so - how can you not believe after you've experienced it? I believe in relationships. One day, I know I'll find the right woman and get married myself.
Michael Jackson
#38. Why doesn't anyone tell you we all wind up married to Henry the VIII?...
...My dear Anne Boleyn,...the only way a woman can avoid waking up next to Henry is to model herself after his daughter Elizabeth and sleep next to no one at all.
Judith Claire Mitchell
#39. This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.
Suzanne Finnamore
#40. There is a huge college about how men and women interact with each other after marriage. But people get married without learning.
Dada Bhagwan
#41. The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson
#42. A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.
Pawan Mishra
#44. I was trying to look at the positive in a very dreary situation. After all, the woman you have to marry nearly killed you thrice!"
"Ah, yes. Thank you for the reminder. I shall be sure to shout "'til death do us part" quite proudly, knowing it will be quite soon in seeking me out.
Rachel Van Dyken
#45. Orgasm isn't a goal. It's the attitude that matters. Abir has
never even asked how I feel after sex. He has many other concerns.
He provides for me and I provide for him, that's a familiarity which
no one can deny. We love each other. Love is a broader thing.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#46. His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner.
Gustave Flaubert
#47. He loved dogs.
She loved cats.
That's the only possible reason they could figure out for their after-marriage fighting like Cats & Dogs.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#48. It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
Lois Wyse
#49. First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring ... soon after ... comes Suffer ... ring!
Jay Leno
#50. If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson
#51. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.
William Galston
#52. It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. "WOOING your woman" should be a continuous process. It should NEVER end after you get your "yes" from her. If you did a lot to get her, you should do more to keep her.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#53. I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.
Sharyn McCrumb
#54. Even after so many years of marriage, there were things she didn't know about her husband's life!
Farahad Zama
#55. After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.
Orson Scott Card
#56. We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#57. Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.
Elizabeth I
#58. I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Kate Adie
#59. I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
Vidya Balan
#60. Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.
Crystal Woods
#61. Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Jacob Braude
#62. It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
Gavin MacLeod
#63. Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.
Tess Gerritsen
#64. After 40 years of marriage, isn't it amazing when you can look at your partner sound asleep next to you and still believe they have potential.
Kaylin McFarren
#65. I believe it is the woman in the relationship that drives the relationship to what she wants it to be
Lori Colombo-Dunham
#66. After a while, marriage is a sibling relationship
marked by occasional, and rather regrettable, episodes of incest.
Martin Amis
#67. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Irving Stone
#68. All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life - it's living death.
Greg Iles
#69. but the first rule about a black woman's hair is you don't talk about a black woman's hair. And the second rule is you don't ever touch a black woman's hair without getting written permission first. And that includes after sex, marriage, or death for that matter. This courtesy is not reciprocated.
Ben Aaronovitch
#70. Not long after my mom died, my dad pretty much kicked me out of the house. He never said, "Get out of my house," but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn.
Brenda Perlin
#71. If you run away from your marriage, I, myself, will take permission from our mother Mary, go to Amadioha and ask him to strike you dead, and after that come back to our mother most merciful.
S.A. David
#73. All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.
Meghna Pant
#74. The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.
Edmund White
#75. The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.
Louis C.K.
#76. After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.
Helen Rowland
#77. Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
#78. There once was a man name Barack,
Whose re-election came as a shock.
He raised the taxes I pay,
And then turned marriage gay.
And now he's coming after your glock.
Stephen Colbert
#79. They would face many more hardships in the days to come. They wouldn't be perfect and neither would their marriage. But they could still live happily ever after . . . together.
Jody Hedlund
#80. Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes adn inclinations is the most important consideration.
Agatha Christie
#81. I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married.
Andy Stanley
#82. Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away in an institution."
"Marriage is an institution," he said.
Lisa Kleypas
#83. It's the eternal tragedy of being gay in Bombay," I lamented. "Never a place to yourself." With city rents so high, most sons lived with their parents until marriage - and usually well after as well.
Manil Suri
#84. Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it. If you don't, when the kids are gone, you'll look in the corner and it'll be dead.
Nicholas Evans
#85. Miracle means; when a South Asian Woman does not turn into an elephant after marriage.
M.F. Moonzajer
#86. The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.'
'Excuse me, but I absolutely cannot understand how after eating my fill here I could go past a bakery and steal a roll.
Leo Tolstoy
#88. Had the love been permanent, there won't have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won't have been bad blood in the family.
Girdhar Joshi
#89. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#90. Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat.
Joanne Woodward
#91. Today's marriages become toxic, with resentments, after only a few years. It's one thing to say, 'I forgive,' but most lack the enterprise to do the necessary work that follows. It was the day after that proved who had the wisdom of God and who didn't.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#92. As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
Julie Andrews
#93. After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#94. When she was taken too bad she went off quite alone to the sea-shore, so that the customs officer, going his rounds, often found her lying flat on her face, crying on the shingle. Then, after her marriage, it went off, they say." "But with me," replied Emma, "it was after marriage that it began.
Gustave Flaubert
#95. Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."
Ernest Hemingway,
#96. Perhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
Doris Lessing
#97. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.
Maj Sjowall
#98. I hope you smile, laugh, and maybe even learn something that will help you along the way to happily-ever-after.
T.N. Carpenter
#99. Katie had married Johnny because she liked the way he sang and danced and dressed. Womanlike, she set about changing all those things in him after marriage.
Betty Smith
#100. Don't you suppose men get surprised after they're married to find
that their wives do have sense?"
"Well, it's too late den. Dey's already mahied.
Margaret Mitchell
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