Robert Fulghum Quotes

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

Marriage is not a reform school.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage?

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

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.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.

Love is a big thing - it's part of who you become, how you grow up. I had a wonderful husband, and I'm very lucky I have a second wonderful husband. You know, some people don't even score the first time.

I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

I definitely don't want to get married just for the sake of getting married.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.