Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

You have to want to be married to someone. You have to feel that reciprocated. Marriage for marriage's sake doesn't make any sense to me, and I found someone with whom I could put my money where my mouth is, I guess.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

I love being married.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Everyone's marriage is different. But everyone's marriage is a compromise.

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

One of the things that gets confused often is the difference between marriage and good marriage. Marriage is a theoretical concept of the institution, and 'you should be married,' is actually meaningless. Marriage is pretty meaningless without the notion of having a specific person to whom you are married.

Every marriage is different, but the most important factor in a strong relationship is the love and harmony between the couple.

Marriage is a beautiful institution as long as two people understand each other well and are willing to live their life together till they die.

If I get married in the future, I want to have a relationship like friends with my other half. It'd be best if we can communicate often.