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Quotes About Marriage

The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth or political influence, but the easiest way into the aristocracy – then as now – was through marriage. Most aristocrats married other ones, but occasionally a commoner might get lucky, just as sometimes happens today. Many
~ James Essinger
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
~ James Gilmore Backus
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
~ James Green Somerville
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
~ James H. Boren
This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
~ James Joseph Brown
The impression given by Bill and May as a couple was of a marriage that was never seriously under strain but was based on habit as much as on affection, with each of them, increasingly, pursuing his or her own interests: Bill in his business, sport, walking, and playing cards; May in the running of the household, the welfare of her sons, Tullow Parish Church, local events such as dog shows, the garden, her dogs, and a donkey called Kish.67
~ James Knowlson
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.
~ James L. Framo
The whole Haley-Nathan marriage deal was a pretty good twist huh? I hope we got all of you with it. That particular story line even suprised me when I read it, it's a good one and it'll provide for some good stories to come.
~ James Lafferty
Although we hardly see each other off the set, Joy and I get along well when we do. As far as the marriage between Nathan and Haley, I think they are young and will see the reality of the situation eventually.
~ James Lafferty
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and his wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
~ James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
~ James M. Barrie
We are to save ourselves for the Bridegroom, as a bride saves herself for her husband.
~ James M. Hamilton Jr.
Proverbs 18:22 says, "He who finds a wife finds a good thing.
~ James MacDonald
See, a marriege needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all.
~ James McBride
You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
~ James McGreevey
Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
~ James McGreevey
To marry, to start a family, to accept all the children that come, and to help them in this insecure world, is the best that a man can do.
~ James Meek
Always that same old story—Father Time and Mother Earth,A marriage on the rocks.
~ James Merrill
Ekman, P. (2009). Telling lies: Clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics, and marriage (4th ed.). New York: Norton. [A great deal of information about lying and its detection.]
~ James Morrison
If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.
~ James Plunkett
Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins
~ James Rollins
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.
~ James Taylor
A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.
~ James Thurber
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
~ James Thurber