Quotes About Marriage

I swear . . . if you existed I'd divorce you.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf…Martha: I… am… George… I am.

I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

But one thing it opened her eyes to, and made certain from the first instant of her new consciousness, namely, that since she loved him she could not keep her promise to marry him.

Ah!" he exclaimed, "how right you were to tell me to marry respectably; to have a solid position; to live in decorous fear of the world and one's wife; and to command the envy of the poor, the good opinion of the rich. You have practised what you preach.

A Gy wears wings habitually when yet a virgin—she joins the Ana in their aerial sports—she adventures alone and afar into the wilder regions of the sunless world: in the boldness and height of her soarings, not less than in the grace of her movements, she excels the opposite sex. But, from the day of her marriage she wears wings no more, she suspends them with her own willing hand over the nuptial couch, never to be resumed unless the marriage tie be severed by divorce or death.

What is more strange yet, his wife was a daughter of quiet, sober, unfantastic England: she was much younger than himself; she was fair and gentle, with a sweet English face; she had married him from choice, and (will you believe it?) she yet loved him. How she came to marry him, or how this shy, unsocial, wayward creature ever ventured to propose, I can only explain by asking you to look round and explain first to ME how half the husbands and half the wives you meet ever found a mate!

Les gens en couple finissent souvent par se ressembler, j'avais déjà vu cela. Ils ne formaient qu'un, les Groom, il était difficile de les distinguer l'un de l'autre, tous deux avaient de la poitrine, tous deux des hanches, tous deux de grosses mains, et tous deux étaient habillés des mêmes vêtements blancs, marque de leur emploi.

It is not my object here to sketch the future of marriage and sex-relations generally—a subject which is now being dealt with very effectively from many sides; but only to insist on our using our good sense in the whole matter, and refusing any longer to be bound by senseless pre-judgments.

Marriage is a generosity contest, and she won.

The Oriole weds his mottled mate, The Lily weds the bee; Heaven's marriage ring is round the earth, Let me bind thee?

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, A church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for, He said one that would make me his wife.

Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie.

To love, cherish, and to obey.

All of my friends from school grew up and settled downAnd they mortgaged off their livesOne thing's not said too much, but I think it's trueThey just get married 'cause there's nothing else to do

If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

With all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.

Something old, something new,Something borrowed, something blue,And a lucky sixpence in her shoe.