Marriage Quotes

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she ...

Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends

Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls t...

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what...

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that'...

Getting married is a good deal like going to a restaurant with your friends. You order what you want...

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because...

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriag...

I have discovered," he said to Charles Dewy, "that when a man marries, peace of mind and freedom go ...

We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by m...

He hadn't wooed her, but had simply claimed her. A gold mine ready to dig. There should have been a ...

He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bir...

Do you realize that you've been married to me for just about half of your entire life?"Her head came...

Dr. Murray made it clear to me before I left that a woman who enhoys the Act is as loose as a harlot...

Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by ma...

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of...

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she shou...

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-ag...

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both...

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener ...

The point is, what sort of a time can a man give a woman? Can he give her a damn good time, or can't...

Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have ...

I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us...

I wondered straightaway how he could sit at peace there, of an evening, with the row of heads starin...

When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aq...

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, a...

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.""Do you mean yo...

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with som...

I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very mu...

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and g...

She represents the country Alamonia.

What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of ...

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a di...

Children are God’s or nature’s practical joke on couples—that which is produced by passion then proc...

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe...

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye ...

He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and...

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living h...

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total...

Over the years I have written many a letter for the wedding of one of the brothers and preached many...

As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor,...

As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, a...

It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love...

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have ...

In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least ...

We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of God’s will and guidance. It is ob...

Then Wanda proposed a health. "Health to abandoned wives!" she said. "Well now," I said. "'Abandoned...

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I k...

she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it ...

I was realizing something I should have known by using my intelligence, without ever having gone to ...

she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she ws in now could be got through quickly, for it w...

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point ...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

I suppose one oughtn’t to marry anybody, unless one’s prepared to make him a full-time job.”“Probabl...

[On marriage and permanent attach

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...

Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to.

The marriage seemed to flourish on Father’s extended absences. ” Ragtime

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted ...

I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult r...

I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with t...

A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul fille...

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, ...

He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not th...

Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometime...

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be ...

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comfor...

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him ...

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, i...

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case ...

Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it is ...

In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that ju...

George, who is out somewhere there in the dark, who is good to me - whom I revile, who can keep lear...

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

In its various forms, so far as we know them, Love seems always to have a deep significance and a mo...

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they ...

Polygamy: an endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude t...

It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel i...

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contra...

My friend Kate once went to a concert of Mongolian throat singers who were traveling through New Yor...

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we stil...

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harv...

Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) ...

The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where ...

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carn...

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happine...

The Buddha referred to married people as “householders.” He even gave clear instructions as to how o...

So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition th...

Modern married women do not fare better in life than their single counterparts. Married women in Ame...

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing...

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...