Quotes About Marriage

The research findings are quite clear: marriages that are homogamous in terms of economic background, religion, and closeness in age are the most stable and tend to be happier.

finding someone who is similar in upbringing, general orientation, and values is the single most important component of a long and satisfying marriage.

According to the experts, in the face of objective differences (such as race or economic background), shared values and outlook on life will go a long way to promote both the quality and stability of a marriage.

What's the secret to a long, happy marriage?" was essentially, "I married my best friend." Similarly, from those whose marriages did not succeed, I often heard, "Well, we were good at love, but we never learned how to be friends.

What the experts suggest is that you look for the qualities of a friend—the capacity to comfortably "hang out"—in the person you choose to marry. Or as one of the experts told me: "Think back to the playground when you were a kid. Your spouse should be that kid you wanted most to play with!

Patty Banas, eighty, is one of the experts who made a go of a first marriage when young, divorced, and then "got it right" in her very happy second marriage. She too had one straightforward recommendation: BE SURE THAT YOU'RE really good friends. That is the most important thing. All the romance and the bells and the whistles are all very nice, but it doesn't last. Be sure that you're very good friends.

The only way you can make a marriage work is to have both parties give 100 percent all the time." It began to make sense: you can't be calculating 50 percent in, 50 percent back. The attitude has to be one of giving freely. And if you start keeping score, you are already in trouble.

Based on their long experiences both in and out of love relationships, their first lesson is this: you are much more likely to have a satisfying marriage for a lifetime when you and your mate are fundamentally similar.

Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

I believe in traditional marriage.

Wait and see," Claire said excitedly. "Your husband will not be able to resist you." Grace hoped Claire was right.Since the night he had kissed her in the drawing room after their disastrous dinner party,he had done a magnificent job of exactly that.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I miss Cindy McCain - she seemed so life-like. I'm a moderate lesbian - I only hold a grudge for six generations. Step away from your e-vehicle. Email is a depressant. The patriarchy is so Dada. We've got homomentum! America was built by affirmative action - for white men. If they want gay people to stop having sex, let them get married. I'm on a single prayer health plan: please god, don't let me get sick. Taser them with love.

A strong man does not need a silent wife.

WE can now have love without marriage and sex without love, but more than 90 per cent of people still prefer to have sex within a steady relationship.

Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

Their chattel status continues in their loss of name, their obligation to adopt the husband's domicile, and the general legal assumption that marriage involves an exchange of the female's domestic service and (sexual) consortium in return for financial support.31

One cannot always marry the person one loves...

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.

I think people marry far too much, it is such a lottery after all, and to a poor woman very doubtful happiness.

It wasn't marriage per se that mattered to me but rather a life with Guy, and therefore I wasn't in need of a big production to kick it off.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.