Best 4897 quotes in «marriage quotes» category

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.

For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

[F]or women, like tradesmen, draw in the injudicious to buy their goods by the high value they themselves set upon them.... They endeavor strongly to fix in the minds of their enamoratos their own high value, and then contrive as much as possible to make them believe that they have so many purchasers at hand that the goods--if they do not make haste--will all be gone.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

Given the expectations of society at large, men are generally correct in their assumption that it is important for a woman to have a man. What they do not understand is how pathetically little difference it makes what man.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

God created sex. Priests created marriage.

God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.