Quotes About Marriage

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

As the bride lets go of her singlehood identity, she prepares an internal space where her new identity as wife will eventually bloom.

It's okay that you like him," Spam says. "Serial killers are really popular. They get prison married and everything.

I come from divorce. I'm only doing marriage once. It's not a game for me.

A man should not marry after thirty years of age; should not enter the government service after the age of forty; should not have any more children after the age of fifty; and should not travel after the age of sixty. That is because the proper time for those things has passed.

You listen to me, woman: you're mine! I'll not share you and, by God, we shall be married!" His mouth came down hard on hers and his lips crushed hers as he stamped his possession on her startled mouth.

Paul said, 'You always had some contempt for me.' 'Yes.' 'And love too.' 'Yes.' A flicker over her stare was the facial equivalent of a shrug. 'Now you have a wife to give you both.

If it occurred to Thursey that there was really no relationship between marrying your own true love and having a fortune showered upon you, she didn't bother about that. In a story you might as well have both, it was make-believe anyway. But if I had to choose, she thought. If I had to choose . . . she stared at her ragged dress hanging from its hook, and her ragged mended sandals on the shelf, then put the books away. How would I ever have such a choice, except in a made-up story?

For Baby, the marriage was a bad one, but it never entered her head that she might complain or refuse to marry Ram. . . . Fortunately, in her eyes what others might have considered an injustice, she considered a law of life.

it is far better to marry the right person at the wrong time than the wrong person at the right time.

KIDS. That's what it eventually boiled down to. My parents' objections, my grandparents' fears, Shyam's lectures all had to do with one thing. Two things, actually. Marriage and kids

Millions of Indian housewives remain silent about the complete lack of sex in their marriage after the first child is born. Most husbands—modern, urban, educated, young, successful and independent—forget that their wives need sexual fulfilment as much as they do.

Marriage is in the same state as the Church: Both are becoming functionally defunct, as their preachers go about heralding a revival, eagerly chalking up converts in a day of dread. And just as God has been pronounced dead quite often but has this sneaky way of resurrecting himself, so everyone debunks marriage, yet ends up married.

My father was very big on marriage.

Neither of us, however, was prepared for marriage, and neither of us had a way of knowing that. One may have seen successful marriages among family and friends, but there are so many independent energies intertwined in marital success that luck of the draw has to be a part of the whole equation. And we weren't lucky. We

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Il peggio nella vita di una donna: il primo uomo. Si muore soltanto di quello, dopo di che la vita coniugale- o la sua contrffazione- diventa una carriera. Una carriera, burocratica a volte, da cui nulla ci distrae nè ci solleva tranne il gioco di equilibri che, a tempo debito, spinge il vecchio verso la giovincella e Chè ri verso Lèa.

If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness

When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front.

By attuning ourselves spiritually before marriage, we lay a strong foundation for our home and family.

Who ... what are they?" "My pride and glory," Alex said fondly. "Betty and Lucy Coltrane. Best damned bouncers in the business. Though of course I'd never tell them that. Fiercer than pit bulls and cheaper to run. Married to each other. They had a dog once, but they ate it.

He spent ten minutes pointing out it was a miracle she was even going out with me. 'Simon,' he added at the end, 'everyone should try to marry someone nicer than themselves.

Marriage changed me. As it should. I signed myself up for a partnership.

I'd never have married', said Alexei to the sobbing Natalya, 'if I'd known our time was to be so short,