Marriage Quotes

Love is it's own protection.

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

There is a radicalism in all getting and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical whil...

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indiffe...

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box...

Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to...

The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a...

Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting ...

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up...

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my hu...

Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose ever...

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I ...

I knew it all, the whole drab compass of marital disillusion; we had been through it together, the A...

I knew it all, the whole drab compass of marital disillusion; we had been through it together, the A...

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existe...

Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told ...

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to hav...

When I hear that "Possession is the grave of love," I remember that a religion may begin with the re...

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

Lucy could see that love unconfined, love outside convention, might well make a woman an unfit mothe...

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife part...

…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an ex...

It never occurs to one to think whether she is pretty or ugly. One just surrenders to her charm.

It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and ...

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic Am...

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well wit...

Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you belie...

All love on this earth involves choice. When, for example, a young man expresses his love to a young...

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in ...

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrat...

In all human love it must be realized that every man promises a woman, and every woman promises a ma...

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt ever...

But in those solitary Masses they began to be aware that once again they were mistresses of their fa...

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a centur...

She clung to her husband. And it was just at the time when he needed her most, because he suffered t...

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a...

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. ...

Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But...

It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits f...

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as...

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who ...

The whole world is strewn with snares traps gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most tr...

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very peopl...

I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the lo...

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to stre...

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through th...

Whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noond...

Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about mar...

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to ha...

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the sm...

But a good wife—a good unworldly woman—may really help a man, and keep him more independent.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, a...

I must show the blacksmith and the shopkeeper once more--two years after marriage--time long enough ...

Love and marriage are of the Father's most powerful means for the making of his foolish little ones ...

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even...

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of...

Until our own time, history focussed on man the achiever; the higher the achiever the more likely it...

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Lu...

Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is cur...

Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotenc...

Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to thei...

Those were the best days in the life of Tancredi and Angelica, lives later to be so variegated, so e...

Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There’s no reason for it. I don’t g...

I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where ...

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage...

A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you bot...

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he wi...

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincer...

My second wife - I was still young then - she left me, and I made the mistake of winning her back. I...

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except m...

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems...

Married people grow like each other.

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have...

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can se...

Before marriage she thought hserself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love ...

His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit ...

Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness whic...

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality...