Marriage Quotes

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

Hillary Clinton has finished writing her book where she says her marriage couldn't be stronger, and Bill just finished his book titled 'Chicks I Nailed While Hillary was Writing Her Book.'

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work.

Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to.

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you!

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell

Virginity, albeit some highly prize it, Compared with marriage, had you tried them both, Differs as much as wine and water doth.

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

To me marriage is for five or ten years

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen.

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.

Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Dreams are more personal. We tend to only dream about issues that impact us directly: our careers, our marriage, our children, our family and friends.

It's clear your marriage is a happy one Your love is solid to the core May the years ahead be happy ones Each one happier than before

All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.

Pot came first when I was young. But I did the work. It wasn't a battle of what came first. They went together like "love and marriage, horse and carriage!"

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

I have thrust myself into this maze, Haply to wive and thrive as best I may.

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

As you become older, you become less judgmental and take offense less. But marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.

Every married couple has disputes from time to time, and in every good marriage, an attempt is made to overcome the dispute.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.