Quotes About Marriage

Dragonflies signify new beginnings and new unions…sometimes marriage.

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality.

so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.

In one such book, provocatively titled "Bobbed Hair, Bossy Wives, and Women Preachers," Rice explained that God had commanded women never to cut their hair, that God intended women to be subordinate to their husbands, and that women should never pastor churches.[‡‡‡‡]

To those who perceived marriage and child-raising as duties rather than as choices

He stopped visiting married friends. Married friends, he decided one evening after returning from a visit, depress me.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.

We have a weekly date, even if it is just to take a walk in the park. We will go out to lunch or dinner and talk together about the kids, upcoming events, what we have coming up.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

I decided he'd changed so much that a whole new book was required and that book actually I can say so was the first to say that the marriage was in trouble and the Prince didn't like at all and my book was being serialized in the Sunday Times over five weeks.

If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years.

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.

My mother would not talk to me for weeks, would not stay under my roof for as long as I was married to Oleg.

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness.

We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids. And then I put on more after that, and I've gone up and down since then.

I think marriage initially involves a lot of people who have nothing to do with your relationship, because it's a legally binding contract, and that has a weight to it.