Quotes About Marriage

I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me.

He'd also agreed to be betrothed to the Archduke of Varsha's daughter, a girl of nine who had evidently impressed him a great deal by being able to spit across a garden plot. I was a little dubious about this as a foundation for marriage, but I suppose it wasn't much worse than marrying her because her father might have stirred up rebellion, otherwise.

JANE," LAURENCE SAID, "will you marry me?" "Why, no, dear fellow," she said, looking up in surprise from the chair where she was drawing on her boots. "It would be a puzzle to give you orders, you know, if I had vowed to obey; it could hardly be comfortable. But it is very handsome of you to have offered," she added, and standing up kissed him heartily, before she put on her coat.

I thought of how many women told me dispiritedly about how their husbands waited for them to ask—or to make a list—and how demoralizing that was for them. I could not help thinking that there was some element of passive aggression in this recurrent theme of nice men, good, playful dads, full of initiative and motivation at work, who "waited to be asked" to do the more tedious baby-related work at home, until the asking was finally scaled back or stopped.

Where beautiful women in 1950s culture got married or seduced, in modern culture the beauty gets raped.

It is a very old saying that "a man's wife may either make him or break him," but the reason is not always understood. The "making" and "breaking" is the result of the wife's understanding, or lack of understanding, of the emotions of love, sex, and romance.

Mercado urged instead that people with the same defect not marry, because their children would be at greatest risk of developing the same hereditary disease. All people should seek out a spouse as different from themselves in as many individual characteristics as possible.

Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived…

When he spoke those words, it seemed to Julian that the hatter had put off falling in love with his wife until he had already lost her. 'You only love truly once in a lifetime, Julian, even if you aren't always aware of it.

Hubo un tiempo en que yo también fui joven y en el que hice todo aquello que se espera que hagan los jóvenes: casarse, tener hijos, contraer deudas, decepcionarse y renunciar a los sueños y principios que uno siempre juró respetar.

Nunca había visto unos cuadros así. Son como... fotografías del alma. [...] Debía de conocer muy bien a tu madre para poder retrarla de ese modo. [...] - Mejor que nadie -respondió-. Se casó con ella.

Armee, Ehe, Kirche und Bankwesen: die vier apokalyptischen Reiter.

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Marriage and family are only what we make of them.

He was going to marry a lady of good social standing

and that the bridegroom had never made it to the church.

Mantive-me a saborear as curvas daquelas costas e a sua suave descida,que nem todas as camisas de noite do mundo conseguiriam esconder.Se bem que estivesse casado há quase 2 anos com aquela prodigiosa criatura,ficava ainda surpreendido ao despertar a seu lado,sentindo o seu calor.

Esercito, matrimonio, Chiesa e banca: i quattro cavalieri dell'apocalisse.

He even went so far as to give his wife, Sophie, a dress and a pair of new shoes for the first time in fourteen years.

Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived...

El matrimonio y la familia no son más que los que nosotros hacemos de ellos. Sin eso, no son más que un pesebre de hipocresías

Vestía de marfil y traía el mundo en la mirada. Apenas recuerdo las palabras del cura, ni los rostros prendidos de esperanza de los invitados que llenaban la iglesia aquella mañana de marzo. Sólo me queda el roce de sus labios y, al entreabrir los ojos, el juramento secreto que me llevé en la piel y que recordaría todos los días de mi vida.

I pointed to her engagement ring. "I don't know who the idiot is, but I hope he knows he's the luckiest man in the world.

todo eso es diletancia. El matrimonio y la familia no son más que lo que nosotros hacemos de ellos. Sin eso, no son más que un pesebre de hipocresías. Morralla y palabrería. Pero si hay amor de verdad, del que no se habla ni se declara a los cuatro vientos, del que se nota y se demuestra...