Marriage Quotes

For the crown of our life as it closesIs darkness, the fruit there of dust;No thorns go as deep as t...

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing...

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, not...

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how...

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave th...

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Treaties are like marriage: they aren't entered in to with the thought of betrayal, and once they're...

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For eve...

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? N...

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be o...

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that two people are incompatible that i...

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; th...

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than y...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are ma...

I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of ...

how shall I get through the months or years of my future life, in company with that man -- my greate...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are ma...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are m...

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy o...

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better dea...

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward i...

A simple enough pleasure surely to have breakfast alone with one's husband but how seldom married...

Some women marry houses.

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. ...

Lou asked point-blank, Can love last? (Rural people get to philosophizing, and will say anything.)—O...

She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make ...

Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial-...

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality,...

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but ...

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifti...

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment ...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can invol...

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital i...

My handsome husband and I didn’t make love for almost six months. I was enraptured, lost to my old l...

Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want...

That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of m...

Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to liv...

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their d...

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression us...

Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’v...

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but ...

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very t...

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into someth...

Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disa...

That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, d...

I consider marriage a very important institution, but it is important when and if two people have fo...

Marriage is not a noun it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way ...

That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it...

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I be...

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Every woman should marry - and no man.

You can bear your own faults and why not a fault in your wife?

Where there's marriage without love there will be love without marriage.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched sli...

First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

New Rule: If you're one of the one-in-three married women who say your pet is a better listener than...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgive...

I’m afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage—ideas that do not necessa...

I know of few families today that aren’t touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, includi...

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to fail...

[My wife] is a great student of the Bible. Her life is ruled by the Bible more than any person I’ve ...

Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.

I have been asked the question, “Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?’ My answer: M...

When a husband and wife are concerned only about their own individual desires, the stage is set for ...

Satan’s first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage—trying to divide Adam and Eve...

My wife often said that “a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.

Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual de...

Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter...

Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.

A good marriage is not “made in heaven,” but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be...

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpo...

While God’s will is that every marriage will endure, man’s sin has poisoned many relationships.

Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible....

A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.

Marriage is God’s invention, not ours! Society didn’t establish it; God did.

It’s amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways...

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs...

Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instea...

As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you mu...

The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect.

Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn’t based on feelings. That is why there are so man...

[God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your lif...

[Ruth’s] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When i...