Marriage Quotes: Wisdom and Inspiration for a Lasting Union
Celebrating the Journey of Marriage
Marriage is a sacred bond that unites two individuals in a lifelong commitment filled with love, growth, and shared experiences. It is a journey of partnership, understanding, and continuous discovery. In this article, we present a collection of marriage quotes that encapsulate the beauty, challenges, and wisdom that come with this extraordinary union.
Marriage quotes offer insights, reflections, and inspiration for couples at various stages of their journey. They celebrate the joys of love, the strength of a solid partnership, and the importance of nurturing the bond between spouses. Whether you are preparing for marriage, newlywed, or have been married for years, these quotes will resonate with you and provide guidance for a fulfilling and lasting union.
Guiding Principles for a Lasting Union: Quotes to Inspire
Delve into the following collection of marriage quotes and allow them to touch your heart, spark introspection, and offer guidance on nurturing a strong and fulfilling marriage. From profound words on the power of communication and compromise to poetic descriptions of love’s enduring nature, these quotes serve as reminders of the foundations and principles that contribute to a successful marriage. Let them inspire you to cultivate love, understanding, and respect within your own relationship.
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates’ specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.
We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
I used to party a lot before marriage.
Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light… You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.
It is so calming, marriage.
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what’s more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.
The institution of marriage works better when there’s a spiritual connection. If you’re marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.
I’d like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.
I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
A beautiful woman is the best investment in marriage a man can make. And anybody who advises otherwise is talking sheer nonsense.
I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it’s beautiful. I’m such a romantic, and I always have been.
Ultimately, my greatest achievement is maintaining my career while sustaining a happy marriage and kids.
The first condition of marriage between a man and a woman is that both must belong to each other totally.
Dancing along with family members and old friends, especially during a marriage, is a memorable experience.
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
I have a mental age of about 17. Far too young for marriage.
I married beneath me, all women do.
The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don’t oppose same-gender marriage.
It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.
Marriage is a great institution.
My friends, they get married at 15 years old. I saw them with bruises on their faces. I realized this is the real face of child marriage.
Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn’t believe in gay marriage.
Nothing tests a marriage more than insomnia or snoring.
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it’s always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That’s been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It’s kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It’s thrilling.
I’m not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who’d owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
In marriage, there’s a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.
But marriage goes in waves. You’ve got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don’t put the work and the effort into it. You’ve got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children – it’s honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
I told my wife that I want to take a three-year break. She supported me and said, ‘Please go ahead.’ I am grateful that she supported me. For me, this romance and understanding is very important in our marriage.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Most kids just follow the cycle. My grandfather didn’t finish high school. My father didn’t, and I didn’t. But you can break the cycle. You can have a successful marriage and be a good father.
My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don’t understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
My parents are conservative. They really weren’t in support of us dating before marriage.
I don’t think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can’t declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; consequently there is a great deal in French novels about adultery, about improper relations between the sexes, about many things which the English public would not allow.
The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what’s surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.
I know plenty of people my age that will never get married because they genuinely believe the false cultural meme that marriage has sadly become. There’s only one problem. It’s completely untrue.
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor – they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed.
Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.
Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it’s an important issue, but there’s a reason that I don’t talk about politics and why I’ll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.
I think marriage is a cultural thing – it’s my opinion that nature doesn’t tell someone to get married.
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please – God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
There’s a stigma about reality shows and the people who star in them. Reality shows mean your career will end, your marriage will be cursed, you have to fight and/or throw a drink, or you’re going to end up broke and a has-been when the series ends.
When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.
Marriage is a blood sport. Marriage is jousting. It’s disembowelment. It’s just terrible, terrible visceral injuries. It’s not for everybody.
I’m not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don’t know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt – people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
I say to my children, the reason that marriage – and having children – is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
I don’t think there’s anything they can say about me that I haven’t said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together – it’s great.
Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot… I’ve seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn’t work.
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again – and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Marriage is scary to me, man.
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
I am a fan of marriage and a fan of being committed to the right person.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn’t be the hardest thing that you do.
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
When our kids are asked by their friends about the success of the longevity of our marriage, they simply joke that Tamar and I have spent so little time together that ‘it’s really too early to tell’ if our marriage will, in fact, succeed.
There is no clear place to draw the line once you eliminate the traditional marriage, and it’s the same once you start putting limits on what guns can be used, then it’s just really easy to have laws that make them all illegal.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it’s one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.
I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage – whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state’s or the society’s.
I believe that marriage is an important part of life. So when it happens, I will definitely let the whole world know.
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
My music is about where I am at the time. In ‘Raymond vs. Raymond,’ I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.
I have a very intense marriage.
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody’s civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That’s a historical fact.
There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
I’ve got a great life. I’m in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
Marriage is amazing.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
That’s my prescription for a happy marriage – marry someone who doesn’t do anything similar to what you do.
When people say ‘marriage’ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.
Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.
If the present Mrs. Wogan has a fault – and I must tread carefully here – if she has a fault, this gem in the diadem of womanhood is a hoarder. She never throws anything out. Which may explain the longevity of our marriage.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
I am an old fashioned guy. I want to first stand on my two feet and then start thinking about settling down. At the moment no marriage plans.
‘Marley and Me’ was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly… I’m referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.
Don’t marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can’t live without.
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
For working mothers, creating a work-life balance is critical, as we must ensure we do not neglect any significant part of our lives – our children, our family’s health, our own health and fitness, our marriage, and, of course, our careers.
A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money.
If it’s not some daring, dangerous affair, it’s just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people – a famous American iconic couple – who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.
Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.
Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body’s cells have been replaced, you’re meant to experience that seven-year itch.
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
I am not married anymore. I hate marriage… but it’s okay now.
The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
I’m also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage – which no previous society has ever believed.
Pink Floyd is like a marriage that’s on a permanent trial separation.
And in a marriage you can’t TRY and be married. You’re married or you’re not married… as far as I’m concerned.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It’s something that reflects nature and reflects God and God’s will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it’s beneficial for society.
Marriage is an exercise in torture.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you’d be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
It’s nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.
I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.
I’m extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I’m not just going to leap into it, because that’s not good for anybody.
The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
After marriage, the other man’s wife looks more beautiful.
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can’t be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.
If I get married, I think I’d pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
My grandfather used to write one sentence every day in his journal: ‘I love Anne more than ever today.’ I think that was his meditation – keeping him in his marriage, and also his appreciation for it. It was very touching.
Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
I don’t believe in the institution of marriage.
I tried marriage. Do I advocate it? Yes. Marriage is a wonderful institution, provided you meet the right person and you be the right person.
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.
Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.
The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
The marriage of computing and connectivity without the shackles of being tethered to a location is one of the biggest disruptive forces of modern times.
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.
I think marriage is all about timing.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
I’m 0 for 3 with marriage – the scoreboard doesn’t lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
Marriage has changed things. I have my own family now.
Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
The president strongly believes that marriage in this country ought to be between a man and a woman. He also believes it is something that ought to be decided by the people. He doesn’t believe that judges ought to impose their will on the people.
The truth is that cleaning up socks and trying to get someone to really listen to you is marriage. It’s less sweep you off your feet and more sweep the kitchen four times a day. Like everything good in life, it’s 98% back-breaking work and 2% moments that make the work worthwhile.
There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it’s not how our similarities work together; it’s how our differences work together.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
I’d have gone berserk if I hadn’t met Sargam Singh, an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.
I like getting married, but I don’t like being married.
A relationship can only work if you work at it. Marriage is the most difficult thing you will do – you’ve got to really love each other to enjoy the same jokes, the same odours, the same behaviours every day.
In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we ‘enter into the holy estate of matrimony.’
I have married thriteen couples. I’m about to do a marriage next month.
Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour – an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.
I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.
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’m proud of who I am. I am proud of my husband and our marriage.
Adultery – which is the only grounds for divorce in New York – is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finish up.
‘Safe Harbor’ is a state of mind… it’s the place – in reality or metaphor – to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl – and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
I like marriage. The idea.
The two most important words in marriage for me are ‘yes, dear.’
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
Before, back in the ’50s, women didn’t have as many rights as men, so they had to be that stay-at-home wife and take care of the kids all day. But now, with marriage, it’s a partnership. It’s not like this old traditional marriage that it once was.
I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn’t. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
People say, ‘What’s the secret to a marriage?’ There’s no secret – I think you get lucky.
Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.
When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.
I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.
Marriage is something I’d recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.
When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.
The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I’d rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.
There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue – you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn’t be the reasons you listen to my music.
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.
Sometimes divorce is better than marriage.
Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 – it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it’s 75-25, sometimes it’s 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that’s how you support each other.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife’s spirits.
There are a lot of Korean films that will show marital strife, but I’m not sure I’ve seen so many that will show it in the interest of showing a real marriage – one that ultimately succeeds.
Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It’s a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn’t work out, they can’t take that away from you.
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
Marriage is anti-romantic – husband and wife are terms like ‘turkey’ and ‘goose.’ Worse, they denote ownership.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.
I firmly believe in marriage. It’s a real important decision that takes a lot of dedication and time. If you’re thinking about divorce. You shouldn’t get married.
Perhaps my problem in marriage – and it is the problem of many women – was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Of course I believe in love despite four divorces. There is nobody who doesn’t believe in love. But marriage – that fits some people but obviously not me.
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything – in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.
I’ve often thought if I didn’t make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, ‘I have to speak out.’
I couldn’t bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.
The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
A man’s friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Marriage – a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.
I don’t think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.
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.
I am against marriage, and I don’t give a fig for society.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
There are four stages in a marriage. First there’s the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
I’m not ready to rush into marriage.
There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
I have a lot of respect for marriage.
I’m the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I’m not the same person at all. At all. I’ve buried a child, I’ve ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
I have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
We’ll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we’ll have to start thinking about that.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.
I’ve always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.
Getting divorced didn’t sour me on the institution of marriage. I’ll tell you what I’ll never do: I’ll never get divorced again.
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings… and lawyers.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren’t.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
So many people prefer to live in drama because it’s comfortable. It’s like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship – it’s actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I’m still a supporter of it.
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I’ve always thought that it’s counterproductive to have a theory on that.
Regency romances end in marriage; zombie stories end in the zombies being vanquished. ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ delivers both.
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn’t even have when you were on your own.
My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I’d like to go fairy tale all the way.
When someone comes up to me and says, ‘Mary, you helped save my marriage’, or, ‘Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship’, I’m in it, really in their lives. And I’m so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I’m not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other’s faults.
Anything that you do in life, whether it’s work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
I think it’s something that needs to be said – that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.
I’m coming out of a long term marriage and I don’t want to jump into anything too serious or too much, too quick.
A man’s love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
I’ll always be sad that my marriage ended.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.
I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don’t know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn’t yet settled into their version of happiness.
I think the idea of marriage is very romantic; it’s a beautiful idea, and the practice of it can be a very beautiful thing.
She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.
Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida’s contrary laws must fall.
Marriage is not about age; it’s about finding the right person.
It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.
The fact is, marriage is just a legal piece of paper. I don’t see why the government needs to get involved in what two people do with their lives. It’s none of their business.
The only sense marriage makes is to share property, your children inherit the name and all that… it is all legal reasons to get married and no reason for love.
People would tell me, especially after my marriage to Prince, ‘You need to write a book because you’ve had a crazy life.’
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone’s right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
I find it extremely ironic that Bush says that personal opinion should not be a tool in the interpretation of the Constitution, when he’s the one who’s lobbying for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. If that doesn’t stem from personal opinion, I don’t know what does.
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don’t want to marry too late. Around 31?
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted the whole day.
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don’t find very often, then that is what love is all about.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it’s just a number.
In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.
I never looked at my parents’ marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, ‘I gotta get me some of that!’
I’m a believer in arranged marriages. I mean, mine was kind of an arranged marriage. My sister introduced me to my husband. You know, kind of set it up.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I’m afraid it did.
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you’ll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.
I feel that whoever isn’t feeling settled in their career won’t think about their marriage.
My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.
Incidents happen that mean more mail. The birth of children, obviously, a sudden religious marriage, the tragic loss of a cat – I had over 2,000 letters when my cat disappeared.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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.
What do you think will happen in a forced marriage? With an uneducated man, an animal. What would I say, that I am already married? Why would I say it? I never accepted him as my husband in my heart or mind. How I spent a year and a half with him, only I know. And I only did it because of the child.
I was a Christian. I didn’t want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.
Be it career or marriage, spirituality helps you believe in yourself.
Husbands are like fires – they go out when they’re left unattended.
Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents ‘radical’ and ‘extremist.’ However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend.
When I heard the royal family wanted to have me perform in celebration of Prince William’s marriage, I knew I had to give them a little something. ‘Wet’ is the perfect anthem for Prince William or any playa to get the club smokin’.
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Marriage ain’t easy, but it’s great most of the time.
Divorce is not the end of the world. It’s worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That’s a worse example for the children.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
Marriage has given me a little family of my own. We hold each other accountable, love each other, and always are there for each other. I feel more balanced now because I know what it’s like to care for others.
Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
I don’t know about marriage as much as I do know that I’d be a great father.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good – which is the family.
Within 18 months of my parents’ marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
It’s hard giving advice to a friend about their marriage. You never know if you’re saying too much or too little.
For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn’t give them the right to discriminate.
My sister is a lesbian and I want her to have that same feeling. A civil partnership is not the same as marriage. She’s in a serious relationship with a girl I am obsessed with. I would love her to marry her girlfriend because I love her so much.
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.
It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
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.
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
I figure no matter how old you are, it’s always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
It’s a lot of work to make a marriage work. Just because you have been married for a while doesn’t mean you can sit back and relax. You still have to be on your toes. A marriage needs constant attention.
Marriage has made me safer.
When you’re suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you’re in your 30s, it’s a hard conversation. I’m a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that’s the way I’d be doing this.
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another road sign toward the substitution of government for God. Every moral discussion now pits the wisest moral arbiters among us – the Supreme Court, President Obama – against traditional religion.
It’s nice to be able to work; I’d love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It’s hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you’re not there you can’t do any of it.
I’m now in my late 30s, and I’ve been thinking a lot about marriage and family. To be honest, I’ve decided to push aside thoughts of marriage and personal questions for now.
I don’t know why people say you can’t have a career and a marriage. Farhan and I loved each other so I didn’t see why it wouldn’t work.
I don’t believe what I do outside my profession is anybody’s’ business. And that includes a personal thing like pregnancy or even marriage.
I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.
We have this rule in our marriage, there’s no such thing as 50/50. Somebody is always putting in more.
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner ’til death do you part.’
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That’s why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
I kind of go back and forth about marriage and kids. I feel like, if it’s an organic way for me and the right time in my life, then, yeah.
Forever, it was just soccer – passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don’t wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not ‘wait’ for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.
It’s about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family.
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.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married… disaster.
A good husband makes a good wife.
Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That’s really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn’t even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn’t a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
I’m not a marriage expert, quite clearly.
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that – well, my father’s family came as Puritans to Massachusetts.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.
The truth is many singles deeply desire and pray for marriage.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Where I stand comes from my upbringing and my faith: I’m 100 percent pro-life and I believe in traditional marriage.
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
Before marriage, I was a very shy person with mood swings. But, now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.
We don’t put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I’m working a lot and Cory’s home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m going to wait until my wife gets home, and she’s going to be doing all that.’
I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
I’ve always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
I’ll say this: The media wasn’t invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.
The secret to a long marriage in the film industry? Marry someone wonderful, as I did. And always have her come along on location.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it’s going to work. You can’t always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you’re needed most.
Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.
I have a lady, she’s a great lady. I love her a lot, she loves me. We’re on the same page. Whenever that day happens when we’re not on the same page we’ll move forward with it. We’re interested in having our lives be our lives right now and not a third person’s vis-a-vis marriage and whatever that means.
That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Do not measure your marriage by how much love you feel today: measure it by how much love you’ve offered today.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenance – thus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.
In conclusion, marriage is a beautiful journey that requires love, commitment, and continuous effort. Let these marriage quotes serve as reminders of the profound bond you share with your spouse and inspire you to nurture and strengthen your relationship. May they encourage open communication, deep understanding, and unwavering love as you navigate the joys and challenges of married life.
