Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

In the West, marriage is collapsing because it is based on love. And a marriage that is based on love is bound to fail. There is a reason for this: whenever two persons fall in love, both of them present what is beautiful in themselves to the other and hide the ugly. When you fall in love, whether you are a man or a woman, you show your most beautiful face to the other - but it is not your reality, it is not your totality.

In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some unheard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

I think all these reverend gentlemen who insist on the word 'obey' in the marriage service should be removed for a clear violation of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, which says there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude within the United States.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.

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

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

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 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 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 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 love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It is ill to marry in the month of May.

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

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

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 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.