Quotes About Marriage

You had to see Catherine six years ago, when they first met. A little too thin, hollow-eyed, in a threadbare dress. She was not only beautiful, she was tragic , a regular damsel in distress. She told Jimmy he was the only chance at happiness she'd ever had, and Jimmy ate it up, hook, line and sinker. In a matter of months they were engaged, then married. Catherine Gagnon came, she saw, and she conquered.

Sergeant, I could've caught her in bed with the man, and I still wouldn't have killed her. Not that kind of guy? Not that kind of marriage.

So Jimmy gained a beautiful wife and Catherine gained a bank account. Bobby shrugged. Sounds like half the marriages of the rich and famous. What's the problem?

It's not easy, though, being brilliant. Nor being married to one.

one may scarcely find one man among seven women, so many women are there widowed whilst their husbands are alive'.

Despite Eleanor being twelve to her husband's twenty-eight, they had begun sleeping together straight away

Regan Pescoli, will you marry me?" "I can't wait," she whispered, her heart soaring as the weight of the decision lifted, all of her doubts scattering to the four winds. "And, let me tell you this, Santana. I'm serious about this, okay? This time it's forever. So don't even think about backing out of the marriage. Otherwise I might just have to shoot you.

I don't understand it, you know. I was married for forty years before the Good Lord took my Aggie. I would've given my right arm and probably my left for a few more years with her and today . . . most marriages are thrown away before they've even begun. A shame, that's what it is, a damned shame.

As the father of your children, as a friend, as someone who shared a journey with you and as someone who loves you and cares about you. I don't need to be married to you to be all those things. Those things are deeper than marriage. Those things are for ever.

She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay. Did you suggest she ask him? Mom laughed. Of course not. Business is slow.

Any man who isn't married by thirty-five is either gay or he's got skeletons in his closet.

It's fun to do something dumb. Not something really dumb, like my second marriage. That was really really dumb.

You can't go! You're my husband, not my principal.

husband? Sheesh!

i would rather be married to broken jade than flawless clay

I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.' Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body.

Everyone knows that part of the spirit descends to the afterworld, while part of it remains with the family, but we have a special belief about the spirit of a young woman who has died before her marriage that goes contrary to this. She comes back to prey upon other unmarried girls--not to scare them but to take them to the afterworld with her so she might have company.

I was a haenyeo—independent and resilient—but I'd missed my husband.

What husband wants a wife who thinks she's smarter than he is?

It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distantly separated people together, that all is settled before birth, and no matter how much we wander from our paths, no matter how our fortunes change—for good or bad—all we can do is accomplish the decree of fate. This, in the end, is our blessing and our heartbreak.

You'll never get a marriage proposal if you have to rely on your needlework.

No man was built to shoulder the full weight of feeding and caring for his family. That was why he had a wife and daughters.

My father always said I was a jade maiden and my future husband was a golden boy

Raising a girl and marrying her off is like building a fancy road for others to use.