Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

My heart is ever at your service.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

My husband melted my heart the day he asked me, "Can I participate in your wonder?" In whose wonder do you get to participate today?

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

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.

My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

My wife gives good headache.

My wife, the star I steer by.

My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.

My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.

My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

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

Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

Never marry a girl named 'Marie' who used to be known as 'Murray'.

Never marry anyone you could not sit next to during a three-day bus trip.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay On Top Of Me Or I'll Die.' " I didn't know what I was goin' to do.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

No compass has ever been invented for the high seas of matrimony.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant.

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.