Quotes About Marriage

Everyone else in the family was married, but she was single and alone, unchosen and unloved.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.

We incline to think that the comparison of Christ's oneness with His Church to human marriage is an attempt to find a symbol for Christ's love, that the marriage is the greater reality. But it is the other way about: the marriage of man and woman is the dim showing of the reflected glory of Christ's union through the giving of Himself, in the flesh, to humanity.

In 1960, just 5 percent of Republicans and 4 percent of Democrats said that they would feel "displeased" if their child married outside their political party.5 By 2010, those numbers had reached 49 and 33 percent, respectively—far higher than the percentage of people who would be "displeased" if their child married someone with a different skin color.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

She loved her lord or thought so, but that love   Cost her an effort, which is a sad toil, The stone of Sisyphus, if once we move   Our feelings 'gainst the nature of the soil. She had nothing to complain of or reprove,   No bickerings, no connubial turmoil; Their union was a model to behold, Serene and noble, conjugal, but cold.

Many women get married to practice taking care of a baby before having one of their own.

A good marriage is a slow transition from a delightful illusion to a still inspiring reality.

Marry your son when you will; your daughter when you can.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Marriage is based on the theory that when man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go work in the brewery.

Never marry a person," psychologist Nathaniel Brandon tells his clients, "who is not a friend of your excitement.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

War is war, but killing a man at a wedding, horrid. What sort of monster would do such a thing? As if men need more reasons to fear marriage.

Jon, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?'' Maester Aemon asked. Jon shrugged. ''No.'' He scattered more meat. The fingers of his left hand were slimy with blood and his right throbbed from the weight of the bucket. ''So they will not love'' the old man answered ''for love is the bane of honor, the death of duty

Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.

If truth be told, I ofttimes wonder how Stannis ever got that ugly daughter of his. He goes to his marriage bed like a man marching to a battlefield, with a firm look in his eyes and a determination to do his duty.

he'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.

I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it's our brother she wants to marry?

Trueborn children are made in a marriage bed and blessed by the Father and the Mother, but bastards are born of lust and weakness.