Quotes About Marriage

Jeff and I signed a Jewish marriage contract, a ketubah, promising to cherish each other in the "way that Jewish men and women had cherished each other through the ages." This probably doesn't refer to King Solomon, who reportedly had 700 hundred wives and 300 concubines but much of the document was written in Hebrew so we really have no idea what we agreed to.

I was beginning to understand why marriage "experts" like to say that if a couple gets through the first year of marriage they stand a good chance of making it. They all seem to agree that year one is the most difficult. (After thirteen years of marriage, I would tend to agree with them, except that they left out years two through twelve.)

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: "Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen with my head in the oven".

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

If the right woman comes into your life, you won't let her go. I'm the last man who would tell you to compromise. Marry someone you can love and accept as she is, Lucivar. Marry someone who will love and accept you. Don't settle for less." Lucivar lowered his arm. "Do you think the right man will come into Cat's life?" "He'll come. If the Darkness is kind, he'll come.

After a short time I changed my condition and was married, and came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners, at which my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted to it and joined the church at Boston.

If ever two were one, then surely we.If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me ye women if you can.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

If such are your expectations of matrimony, Esther, you must, indeed, be careful whom you marry - or rather, you must avoid it altogether.

Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it is far more likely to produce a contrary result

I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Monogamous. I'm interested in monogamous. I got married last May and had my honeymoon is Stykkishólmur. This year I returned to Stykkishólmur to live with my husband for three months in one small room. This extreme monogamy proved almost too much for us. Rather than murder each other we rented a second place (Greta's house) near the pool. Now we are happily duogamous.

I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to reveal it.

It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife.

One of the first lessons I learned after marriage was, "Don't lie, but don't tell everything". It allows a certain amount of dignity to remain in the relationship. It is also a kindness.

I want to marry you for only one reason—I'm madly, deeply, irrevocably in love with you. More than I ever knew was possible.

And now the bride begins to move. Little mechanical doll, clinging to her husband's arm, climbing into the carriage. Her white silk stocking, her elegant shoe.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

There is no singular meaning of wife. That is the point. That is its meaning. To see the wife fully through a multi-faceted lens is one of the central challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. To do this, new scripts are required that employ wife as a verb and as a gender-neutral concept. These are essential if we are to create necessary new narratives, new ways of living as women and men together.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

My marriage to Abby] won't even be a blip on the gossip sheets unless we treat it as such.' 'Everything is fodder for the gossip sheets.' 'Not if we don't dignify it with a response and just go along as if this is the way things will be.