Marriage Quotes

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly o...

There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, ...

No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Hortense was a wife; Valerie a mistress.Many men desire to have these two editions of the same work,...

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever in...

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

When she found a place of her ownand packed her bags he asked her to marry him. She kissed him, and ...

When love dies and marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial re...

When he thought of her, it rather amazed him, that he had let that girl with her violin go. Now, of ...

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged,...

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could po...

Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to suppo...

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriages ...

As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, ...

She thought too that women didn't know what to do with themselves these days which could turn them i...

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument s...

Faithfulness in Christian marriage entails that: great mortification. For a Christian man there is n...

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting ...

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It'...

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the...

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had...

This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this de...

...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which o...

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possibl...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderat...

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be in...

I am not only not going to be married, at present, but have very little intention of ever marrying a...

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the grea...

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandest...

Maria was married on Saturday. In all important preparations of mind she was complete, being prepare...

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

I pay very little regard," said Mrs. Grant, "to what any young person says on the subject of marriag...

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

And such is your definition of matrimony and dancing. Taken in that light, certainly their resemblan...

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect...

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

Here are officers enough in Meryton to disappoint all the young ladies in the country.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was t...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection wou...

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil righ...

Let me give you an idea how long ago they got married. You know where they met? . . . At a Cubs Worl...

I am convinced that in the present time, in spite of the difficulties man has to meet another in a s...

My first wife said, 'It's either thatguitar or me,' you know -- and I giveyou three guesses which on...

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with peo...

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled w...

You can be in love and raise a family wonderfully by not being married, but actually, marriage does ...

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, a...

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a ...

That woman," Grimm said quietly, "drives me quite insane."Kettle grunted. "Why'd you marry her, then...

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject...

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we offic...

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tel...

She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my ma...

It's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a...

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I tho...

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're m...

So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communic...

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. L...

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What wo...

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that y...

Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to...

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. Howev...

Even if we have grown so far apart that we don't recognize each other when we pass, we have this lif...

When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember i...

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosex...

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, pr...

Let [the wife] guard, as much as possible, against a gloomy and moody disposition, which causes her ...

So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could und...

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the...

Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got a...

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of fo...

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. ...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...

Husbands and wives, recognize that in marriage you have become one flesh. If you live for your priva...

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant ...