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Quotes About Marriage

I was preparing your dress,Walks the Fire, but my son is impatient. He woke me this morning and said there was to be a feast today...for he would take you as his wife." Prairie Flower interjected, "So you see, Walks the Fire,your heart sings when he is near,and his heart answers the song. You did not believe me, but it is true.
~ Stephanie Grace Whitson
The day you took me as your wife, we promised, 'Wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.' This promise was forever. I wish to be with Rides the Wind,among his people for all the time that God gives.
~ Stephanie Grace Whitson
Sane women did not marry tyrants.
~ Stephanie Laurens
Honoria ground her teeth. "What on earth am I to do with you?" Devil's features hardened, "Marry me." His voice was a frustrated growl. "The rest will follow naturally.
~ Stephanie Laurens
The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Love and marriage may go together like a horse and carriage, but it is crucial that the horse of passion quickly be tethered by the weight of the carriage of respectability to prevent runaways.
~ Stephen A. Mitchell
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Countless mistakes in marriage, parenting, ministry, and other relationships are failures to balance grace and truth. Sometimes we neglect both. Often we choose one over the other.
~ Randy Alcorn
You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.
~ John Major
Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.
~ Philip Sidney
the challenge of nonfiction is to marry art and truth.
~ Phyllis Rose
Proclaim the beauty and truth of the Christian message to a society which is tangent by confusing presentations of sexuality, marriage and the family.
~ Pope Francis
Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.
~ Pope John Paul II
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.
~ Reif Larsen
Don't date anyone you can't see yourself marrying.
~ Turcois Ominek
They are strong wives, devoted moms, and beautiful women, trying to find a way to earn and keep their wings because God knows, it's not easy being married to the military.
~ L.M. Fields
The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.
~ Shakira
The real point was that it was exactly like the film Love Affair," said Sondheim, whose frames of reference were often cinematic. "They decided they would not do anything but see in six months whether they still wanted each other. So they let six months go by and then decided that they did want to see each other, so she left her husband—even though she was a Catholic—and he left my mother.
~ Meryle Secrest
Remember this:  genre is the marriage of convention with invention.
~ Michael A. Arnzen
You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.
~ Michael Chabon
I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer.
~ Michael Chabon
Her hair was a glory of tendrils for the snaring of husbands.
~ Michael Chabon
He was never unfaithful to Bina. But there is no doubt that what broke the marriage was Landsman's lack of faith.
~ Michael Chabon