Quotes About Marriage

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

maridos y la basura deben de salir de casa antes de las once de la mañana, porque si lo hacen más tarde, la casa apesta.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

You can't warm a stone by slapping it, Sally. You'd only bruise yourself. A stone is neither cruel nor tender. You've married a man of stone, Sally.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

This is why the Word of God exhorts husbands to love their wives, wives to love their husbands, parents to love their children and Christians to love one another. Love defeats the devil, but rejection opens a door of opportunity for the devil to do an evil work.

The psychological effects of wet-nursing are usually thought pernicious by modern experts, but it must be remembered that the Romans had a much more diffuse notion of family than that in the post-Industrial Revolution West. Child-minders were a fact of life in a culture that regarded marrying for love as eccentric, even deviant, and whose kinship boundaries were constantly shifting; divorce and remarriage among aristocratic families may have reached 50 per cent.64

Never, never, never should a penny of that miraculous fortune be spent; rather should it be added to. It was a nest egg, a monstrous, roc-like nest egg, not so large, however, but that it could be made larger. Already by the end of that winter Trina had begun to make up the deficit of two hundred dollars that she had been forced to expend on the preparations for her marriage.

But the couple faced the room, Trina throwing back her veil. She—perhaps McTeague as well—felt that there was a certain inadequateness about the ceremony. Was that all there was to it? Did just those few muttered phrases make them man and wife? It had been over in a few moments, but it had bound them for life. Had not something been left out? Was not the whole affair cursory, superficial? It was disappointing.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

A toast at your wedding, perhaps?" said Eldric. "I shall never get married," I said. "But I do like champagne.

A person might get angry when the girl he loves says she'll never marry.

BeÅŸerî geleneklere bakt???m?zda daimi evliliklerin, esasen iki bireyin aras?ndaki kal?c? cinsel aÅŸka dayanmad???n?, onun yerine iktisadî kayg?larla düzenlendiÄŸini görürüz. Resmî evlilik, mülkiyetin aktar?lmas?yla ilgili bir meseledir.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Really, it was my fickleness, I sometimes think, that they found unendurable. If I had restricted myself to only one of their sweet girls, and married her, and chewed her neck in private, I suppose I might, like any eccentric cousin, have been made almost welcome among family and friends in the circle of the hearth. But perhaps I misjudge what degree of eccentricity even an Englishman can tolerate.

Perhaps if you were a Jewess it might be different. He'd suspect you of wanting to hook me. And he wouldn't like that at all. Of course, if you were immensely rich he might, he just might consider a marriage possible — but even so he'd hate to hurt my mother's feelings. You see, he's still very much in love with her.

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

One should choose a wife with the ears, rather than with the eyes.

There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.