Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often.
I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.
People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
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.
Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.