Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow, because they have to meet the challenge every moment - and with no security. They have to create an inner phenomenon. With security you need not bother to create anything; the society helps.

It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an imposition, an invention of man - certainly out of necessity, but now even that necessity is out of date. It was a necessary evil in the past, but now it can be dropped. And it should be dropped: man has suffered enough for it, more than enough. It is an ugly institution for the simple reason that love cannot be legalized. Love and law are contradictory phenomena.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

It is well within the order of things That man should listen when his mate sings; But the true male never yet walked Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

It would have been a wonderful wedding - had it not been mine.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

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've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

I've had lots of offers of marriage and from women wanting to have my kids.

I've had diseases that lasted longer than my marriages. You know you are in a bad marriage if you walk down the aisle thinking, 'Is this dress right?

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.