Quotes About Marriage

Lovers lying two and twoAsk not whom they sleep beside,And the bridegroom all night throughNever turns him to the bride.

The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

In 1737, a Connecticut husband—perchance while snoring—received from his wife a shovel of hot embers in his gaping mouth,

Being a wife to a man is like being a lid to a jar: if she doesn't fit, he'll simply try another lid.

There are women who will never get to know their fathers and won't get over it. There are women who have had to know their fathers and won't get over it. There are women who know what it is to live with a man, but who will never know what it is to marry a man; and there are women who know what is to marry a man, but who will never know what it is to live.

Where on earth do you get a rose in Elsinore in the middle of winter?" "Don't you want it?" She took the flower from him, kissed his cheek. No bristles. No beard. A clean-shaven man with a kind and amiable face. Scheming. She didn't doubt it. But he was a diplomat by training. It was only to be expected. And if he'd lacked those skills perhaps neither of them would have managed Old Hamlet's death, the marriage, the succession so easily.

Christopher Lasch concluait cette passe d'armes : « La femme moderne ne peut résister à la tentation de vouloir dominer son mari ; et si elle y parvient, elle ne peut s'empêcher de le haïr. »

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.

When married people develop such an intense but inappropriate fixation to somebody other than their mate, they may be driven to jeopardize or even destroy a reasonable marital relationship. In the heat of passion, they seem incapable of attaching any real weight to the potentially disastrous consequences of their infatuation--the possible breakup of their marriage.

The voice of a Muslim woman is also 'aura. Not only because the sweet words coming from her mouth must be heard only by her husband and master, but because the voice may create a disturbance and set in train the cycle of zin?.

This is another aspect of nik??, the obligation to satisfy one's spouse. Nik?? and unconsummated marriage are mutually exclusive. Abstinence of a hundred and twenty days is a maximum not to be exceeded in any circumstances.

I thought you'd come back to get married,' he said with a grin. 'Not to carry out an archaeological project.' 'Cut out that getting married stuff,' I said, and in this way we smilingly slid past the troublesome moment.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

For better or for worse, but not for lunch,...

The buzzword is companionate marriage, a relationship between two equals based on love and shared interests. Coupling is all about the quality of the relationship; its purpose is centered on mutual satisfaction, individual development (of children as well as spouses), and the joint pursuit of happiness.

Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.

I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying; and for this reason; I can never be satisfied with any one who would be blockhead enough to have me.

Thomas Christian ladies attend his clinic as faithfully as they attend church, presenting him their aches and pains that are often surrogates for chronic marital woes—he offers placebos and sympathetic homilies, such as "Mullu elayil vinallum, ela mullel vinallum, elakka nashttam." Whether the thorn falls on the leaf, or the leaf falls on the thorn, the leaf suffers. "Aah, aah, you're so right, doctor. My husband is a thorn only, what to do?

I trust him. He leans in, tells me the real miracle, more than marriage, the thing that makes you believe there might be a god after all, is the making of a child. He stares at me, but I am not there anymore. I don't say we've tried a long time, been sad, been happy, that perhaps the only thing I can make is love and art. I want to tell him that's enough. Isn't it?

You don't magically become a new person as soon as you slip a ring on your finger.

She and I were storytellers. Swapping stories constituted our good times. That's what sustained our marriage until, I guess, stories weren't enough.

Honestly," Jun Do said. "I don't even know why you guys do this, what's the point of tattooing your wife's face on your chest?" [...] "There is only one reason," the Captain said. "It's because it places her in your heart forever.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.