Quotes About Marriage

Il matrimonio e la famiglia sono un guscio vuoto e spetta a noi riempirlo di significato.

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. Yes, go on, laugh.

Leger, huwelijk, kerk en bankwezen: de vier ruiters van de apocalyps.

He always thought becoming a husband and father would be a living Hell, but he had no idea it was going to be so literal.

Scavy laughs. "It could have been worse," he says. "We could have grown old together. Got married. Had kids. Worked on the docks for shit pay." "Ewww…" Popcorn says.

I'm not the first or the last to stand on a hillock, watching the man she married prove to the world he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock. - Mrs Icarus

I'm happily married to Peter senior; we're best friends as well as lovers, which is probably the best recipe for a successful relationship. We live in a lovely part of England.

Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were the property of her husband, just as the children of the female slave belonged to her master. But perhaps the most graphic illustration of the continuity between slavery and marriage was that in England – as Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge reminds us – wives could be sold at public auctions.

The 'family', in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The many figures that populated the family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gradually disappeared until the couple of husband and wife took the centre of the stage, and the marriage contract became constitutive of domestic relations.

Mercy had never liked thinking about Eliza marrying an Indian. But what was her own future now? Would she, would Sarah, would Ruth, end up marrying an Indian? The image of Ruth Catlin agreeing to obey an Indian as her lawfully wedded husband made Mercy laugh.

Statistics show that well over half the married couples in our culture divorce, and many of those who stick it out do so for reasons other than personal happiness—because it's such a hassle dividing everything, moving, having to start over—not to mention children and the emotional and financial aspects of splitting up.

He flipped through channels until he found reruns of NCIS. Understanding murder is simple compared to understanding a woman, Leroy Jethro Gibbs. You been married a bunch of times. What advice would you give me? He talked to the character on the television. Gibbs said, Grab your gear.

I think, and this is my opinion only, that there are many ways of marital death. God did not intend for a husband to mistreat his wife or for him to be lord and master over her.

Marriage is built on trust and respect, and when that's gone, it's like sticking dynamite under the foundation of a house and expecting it to go on standing.

about them anymore or the cowboy I'm about to marry. And Finn

That we are on the right journey to where we're supposed to go . . . and to think it all started with catching a bouquet.

like him first and foremost, because that goes beyond all the rest. It's what's left when you're old and lust isn't there anymore for health reasons. It's the glue that holds a marriage together

There's a difference between love and being in love, and also in liking a person. Love is akin to lust, and lasts a few minutes a day. In love is deeper than that. But, honey, you better like him first and foremost, because that goes beyond all the rest. It's what's left when you're old and lust isn't there anymore for health reasons. It's the glue that holds a marriage together," Vera told her.

picture of Percy throwing away the first pancakes she'd made after they were married because they weren't perfectly round flashed through her mind. She quickly hit the mental "Delete" button, determined that she was never going to think about him again.

nothing to offer anymore. That you were becoming a respectable citizen. And you wanted to be close to your mama's spirit," she said. "Pretty smart for a kid." Seth grinned. "So what happened when Jesse came home?" she asked. "Jesse never did acknowledge the baby he'd produced. He married his

What in the devil is a forever thing?" he asked. "It's a thing that lasts way past attraction and saying the vows in front of a preacher. It's something that endures the fights as well as the good times right up until the last breath is drawn. That's a forever thing

Next the ruined panty hose came off. I removed my wide gold wedding band, tied it to the leg with the big hole, and carried it back to the bedroom. I stood on the bed and looped the hose around a blade on the ceiling fan. I hoped Drew would flip on the light switch and the thing would knock him upside the head.

Rosy cheeks gave Johanna a strangely youthful look this morning, he decided, his grin in full view. There was no way around it. The woman had bloomed during the past months. The somber female he'd married had, right before his very eyes, become a shiny-eyed girl. That

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.