Quotes About Marriage

The good wife at her husband's home, the other one is at her parent's home. #BadWife

The spouse of a woman is a man; the spouse of a man is his livelihood

The woman without a husband doesn't have a friend.

Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing bride, weeping wife.

You are sure to marry a woman either beautiful or ugly; If ugly she will be a punishment; if beautiful, you will share her with others. Therefore do not marry.

You can trust your brother, your father, your mother, but Never Your WIFE

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

When a husband makes difficult decisions, he should do so with the full counsel of his wife.

Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are.

How the proud Rajputs reconciled with the idea of offering their daughters to Muslims, has not been explained. Was it a political compulsion only? Or were the Mughals, as a martial race admitted in their caste as the kshatriyas? But it was all along oneway traffic and no Mughal princess is recorded to have been married to a Rajput.

Like most women you are riddled with the missionary instinct, that always seeks to change a man's nature and make it a little higher than the angels; whereas a man knows he can't remake any woman, and if his wife doesn't suit him, he accepts her as she is or goes out and finds another.

Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds of stinky dippers, tending the garden God has put us in. This is why my dear wife vacuums the floor, for it is part of the garden she has been called to dress and to keep. But she is doing this not as raw duty, but because she understands that she is exercising dominion over the dust, for the glory of Christ.

Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

If our marriages are to survive the long haul, we certainly must have a love that keeps no record of wrongs.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

How does the old cliché go? When every Arab girl stood in line waiting for God to hand out the desperate-to-get-married gene, I must have been somewhere else, probably lost in a book.

you can tell how well a marriage is working by counting the bite marks on each partner's tongue.

Throughout our marriage, we would go for weeks without exchanging more than perfunctory communications, sharing little but the bewildered quiet. And you think that I am lonely now? Heavens. I wish I'd listened to Chekhov, or had read him then: "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

A girl is supposed to be ecstatic on her wedding day. According to tradition, getting married is what we live for. Hope your wedding day is soon, they say. To young girls even, barely ten years old. May we all celebrate your wedding day. What did it feel like for her, though? She waits at her father's house, all dressed up in white. The men in her family all proud, happy, one less mouth to feed, one less honor to defend.

In her world, husbands were omnipotent, never impotent.