Quotes About Marriage

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

No subordination pertains in the garden. The adam's service to the garden is rooted in his kinship with the ground. Marriage, according to the Yahwist, is founded on the kindship intimacy of partnership and companionship (2:24). Life in the garden is one of fruitful work, abundance, and intimate companionship. In the garden there is neither fear nor shame, even before God. These are 'lacks' that are meant to endure. But, alas, they do not.

God created the institution of human marriage to reflect, or mirror forth, this eternal union. In other words, human marriage exists to point men and angels to the eternal marriage of Christ and his church. The gospel made this divine marriage possible. Here is our point: human marriage exists to preach the gospel. It exists to illustrate the fruit that should follow the preaching of the gospel in the church. To

God created the institution of marriage to proclaim the gospel. Our children are the first audience impacted. God wants our children to see our marriages, behold the beauty of the gospel, and be irresistibly attracted.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

Cuántos maridos y mujeres —exclamó con tristeza— creerán que ya no se aman porque sus corazones no se conmueven al verse! ¡Ah, Dios querido!

Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak'd meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.Would I had met my dearest foe in heavenEre I had ever seen that day.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

A young man married is a man that's marr'd.

William Shakespeare

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.

Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No; the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.

O curse of marriage!That we can call these delicate creatures ours,And not their appetites. I had rather be a toad,And live upon the vapor of a dungeon,Than keep a corner in the thing I loveFor others' uses.

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.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

When daisies pied and violets blue,And lady-smocks all silver-white,And cuckoo-buds of yellow hueDo paint the meadows with delight,The cuckoo then, on every tree,Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,Unpleasing to a married ear!

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,Even such a woman oweth to her husband.