Quotes About Marriage

From the marriage had come only one child; he had wanted a son and had got a girl, and that was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children now I have six children and no theories.

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

It was as if marriage had been a long, complicated meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

There were no more long summers. The last was when she had played hide-and-seek with Vesey and the children. Since then the years had slipped by, each growing shorter than the one before. It had not seemed a long time, her married life. Summer and winter had run into one another. Betsy had not so much grown up as unrolled Ã¢â'¬â€œ as if she were all there at the beginning, but that each birthday unrolled more of her, made more visible, though suggesting more.

Furthermore, material remains tell us little about the intangible parts of culture: about marriage and dinner recipes and how the world was categorized. (Anyone who has ever learned a second language knows that different cultures look at the world differently, from what colors and how many of them form the rainbow to who is counted as kin.)

I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.

But even while Lily was his wife, Amos thought of Ath-mun - now only a faint frail part of memory but still dear. He hoped that in making one black woman free he had made Ath-mun free if she was in need of freedom.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

He took her face in both his hands and kissed her like they weren't even married yet

The bride who wants to do her full job will plan from the start to create the kind of home her husband wants, and to do it with no more assistance than he willingly offers. —"Making Marriage Work," Ladies' Home Journal, June 1950

Take an interest in his appearance. Keeping his clothes in order is your job; encouraging him to look his best, and admiring him when he does, should be your pleasure. —"Making Marriage Work," Ladies' Home Journal, January 1950

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Another common response is, "What if our marriage doesn't work out? I want to make sure I have some money of my own." We have a problem with that, too. If a woman is going into a marriage with thoughts of "what if it doesn't work out," how committed can she be? Her problem is not money, but commitment or love.

Advice to a Separated Couple—My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.

The warmth of true friendship and the love that binds the hearts of husband and wife are a foretaste of heaven.

Eva fue creada de una costilla tomada del costado de Adán; este hecho significa que ella no debía dominarle como cabeza, ni tampoco debía ser humillada y hollada bajo sus pies como un ser inferior, sino que más bien debía estar a su lado como su igual, para ser amada y protegida por él.

What can be more pleasing to God than to see those who enter into the marriage relation seek together to learn of Jesus and to become more and more imbued with His Spirit?

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.

A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators.

her temperament was not designed to encourage warmth, even—or was it especially?—in a husband.

she was busily wondering how women could have survived marriage throughout the ages if knitting had not been invented,