Quotes About Marriage

He was really into family... He'd never come on the road with me on the weekends 'cause he wanted to spend time with his wife.

you know... there is a name for people who are always wrong about everything all the time.... husband!!!

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other.

When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Only married people understand you can be miserable and happy at the same time.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to manage households that numbered a hundred people or more, white and black, and they were trained with that in view.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws...

Wedding song (reprise) But you and I, through burning plains, through darkness of the earth, affirm the world, its people, the heavens that gave them birth, the breath that passes between us, this new home where we stand, and all those things made larger by the vows between woman and man.

Tas strolled along the Haven Road, flourishing his hoopak, enjoying the day and reflecting that if he had known marriage would be this exciting, he would have done it a long time ago.

Tsosie says Olive would only have been given a clan name if she were considered a full Mohave. But her clan name also masks her marriage status. If, after some period of adaptation, she was married—and Mohave girls of the period did so in their early to mid-teens—her name wouldn't show it. The Mohaves were serial monogamists with no wedding ceremony. Marriage meant living together; moving out signaled divorce.

Katie's mum, Penny, said I don't know why you're wasting your time with him. If he's forty-two and never been married, he's hardly likely to get married now. And Katie's sister Naomi had the darkest prediction. He'll make mincemeat of you. He won't, Katie protested. I'm not going to fall for him. So why are you bothering at all? Just killing time until I die.

Even though she was weird and saved money and hadn't had sex until she got married, I was still very fond of her.

Being Married does´t mean you have to give up your sight!

Then dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone.  The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people.

The creative spirit thrives on freedom and daring. Many of history's most creative women have not been married. As for the priestesses of olden times, don't even think about it. Priestesses were spiritual mermaids, and a lot of men were drowning.

Of course, she [Alice Hayward] was right. She always was right, though now and again she suspected, with a touch of exasperation, that John didn't always think so. But he generally let her have her own way, and that, after all, is what matters to a wife, especially is she loves her husband as much as she, Alice, loved her John.