Quotes About Marriage

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

Un profesor aprensivo planea casarse con la chica de sus sueños, ¡pero antes debe acompañar a su futuro y sobreprotector cuñado –un policía– a una patrulla infernal!: Ride Along [Compañero de patrulla].2 (Atención al detalle: cualquier cosa «infernal» aporta siempre un plus de comicidad.)

When a Man has Married a Wife He finds out whether Her Knees & elbows are only glued together.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

my husband can't pass by a beautiful birch tree or a beautiful spruce without just standing there, thunderstruck, watching... I'll have to be careful he doesn't merge with those trees body and soul, careful not to lose him altogether.

Often we looked at each other, my husband and I, when we both thought of Ethan, and touched foreheads and gave each other a little kiss ... and those moments when we kissed gradually took on a greater significance than when we first kicked off this strange marriage of ours, wherein both of us knew that although we didn't much like each other, we did somehow belong together ..

The New Man was not the victor, loud-mouthed and vain, but the man who was humble and solemn, with the beautiful eyes of a terrified animal. And so through the eyes of these lovers—because even married couples became lovers again with the danger of the front hanging over them—I learned to see the countryside, the flowers on the tables, the children at play, and to see that every hour is a sacrament.

People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it's no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Marriage is an important step in a man's life, but I confess I don't understand why we have to spend'so much money in celebrating the perpetuation of our race. Ceremonies are only a show of wealth, at best a gesture of good will toward our friends, and I think perhaps it all goes too far. I wonder if you agree with me

A long time ago, daughter, we Chinese married strangers, because most of the people who lived near us were of the same sae. By the time a bride could visit her parents, perhaps two weeks had passed. And sometimes it was such a distance that the 'bride' arrived with one fat baby clingingtoher skirts and another in her arms. But it remains our tradition to honor a married daughter on her first visit home, even when her journey is from the shop next door.

It is becoming quite irksome, this stubbornness of hers about marrying. Suitors do appear occasionally, men eager to marry her, but she will have nothing to do with any of them. I wouldn't be at all surprised if she picked the worst of the lot in the end; as an old Thai saying goes, she who has one chance to walk the length of the garden in search of the perfect rose may have to pick in haste from the last bush.

Simplificando, podría decirse que cada hombre se encuentra situado en una área social de matrimonio, y la regla establece que puede tomar esposa fácilmente en su área y en las áreas inferiores.

Así, la condición económica y social influye sobre la vocación al matrimonio [...]

La dualidad de las estrategias matrimoniales evidencia la dualidad de los criterios que el grupo utiliza para calibrar el valor de un individuo.

Marriage, rightly concluded, is an incarnation of love--poetry expressed in action--a sweet embellishment of an otherwise prosaic existence.

Upon marrying, we need most to pray for one of two things in our partners--the love that blinds, or the good-nature that excuses.

Few marry their first loves; fewer ought to. The love of the very young is like the love of children for sweetmeats: they usually outgrow it.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.