What Is Marriage Quotes

There is no such thing in the Lord's eyes as something called same-gender marriage.

Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.

Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.

Love is love, but marriage is an investment.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

We seldom give each other advice-I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

I'm not here to promote your pride.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Never be in a hurry to terminate a marriage. Remember, you may need this man/woman to finish a sentence.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

I grew up very conservatively and traditionally. I wanted to save myself for marriage.

Marriage is not common in Sweden.

A marriage is a partnership.

I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

This will be the most important decision of your life, the individual whom you marry.

Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.