Quotes About Marriage

I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye—

Nothin'," Alex says. "We'll talk later, chica. It's not a big deal." "Don't chica me, Alex," his bride snaps. "I think she's gonna deck him," Ben murmurs, amused.

Doesn't the thought of marryin' me give you an adrenaline rush?

A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Give me, next good, an understanding wife,By nature wise, not learned much by art.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Prithee, pretty maiden, will you marry me?(Hey, but I'm hopeful, willow, willow, waly!)

For I'm not so old, and not so plain,And I'm quite prepared to marry again.

I was at a dinner party in New York during which the host loudly declared his undying love for his wife. Two weeks later, he left her for another woman. I am as convinced that his declaration was sincere as I am that he was a cipher to himself.

Erica's imminent departure changed us. The knowledge that we would soon be separated made us both more indulgent, relieving us of a burden I still can't name. I didn't want her to go away, and yet the fact that she was going away loosened a bolt in the machinery of our marriage. It had become a machine by then, a churning repetitious engine of mourning.

Love affairs and marriages stand or fall on this secret. Familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life are the enemies of eros.

Tragedy--to fall in love with a face, and marry the whole woman.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Those whom we first love we seldom marry

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

I'm a double bagger. Not only does my husband put a bag over my face when we're making love, but he also puts a bag over his head in case mine falls off.