Marriage Quotes

I believe people ought to mate for life...like pigeons or Catholics.

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

...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it.

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

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong artsMake of so noble individual partsOne fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.

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

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

Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.

With such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased. The extreme sweetness of her temper must hurt his.

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.

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

I will deny thee nothing: Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, To leave me but a little to myself.

It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep talking, arguing, making love and dancing to the Ramones- it'll probably keep working.

Now go with me and with this holy manInto the chantry by: there, before him, And underneath that consecrated roof, Plight me the full assurance of your faith.

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

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

...only the exclusive and indissoluble union between a man and a woman has a plenary role to play in society as a stable commitment that bears fruit in new life.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

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. We were called by God as a team.

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

It’s amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

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

As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith.

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

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

[Ruth’s] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

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

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

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

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: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.

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

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 destinies. God declared marriage to be good.

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

Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.

The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.

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

How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.