Quotes About Marriage

Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a good and a venerable thing that the fusion of these two destinies whence a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. And

Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel with his finger on his lips. The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the celebration of love takes place.

Let your rain be your wife's tears. And let it never rain in your household.

A wrecked marriage scares everyone. It's like a rock tossed into a still blue pond; the ripples go on and on.

There was something she hadn't known when she went into marriage and became a mother that she knew now: it was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

You said I was supposed to shoot you if you even thiught about narriage before thirty. You want to amenr that?

You said I was supposed to shoot you if you even thought about marriage before thirty. You want to amend that?

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

My mistake wasn't in letting the marriage end; it was in fooling myself into believing that marrying him was a good idea in the first place.

There is no such thing as escape after all, only an exchange of one set of difficulties for another. It wasn't Mark or the farm or marriage I was trying to shake loose from but my own imperfect self, and even if I kept moving, she would dog me all the way around the world, forever.

There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

Being a mom often makes it challenging to take time for personal growth; I've never had a positive insight or come into a new awareness that didn't directly affect my marriage or my children in a positive way.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Now, you just forget about Jaimy, 'cause he's sure forgot about you, the snob. Now let's me and you go and get married and have a fine toss in the hay and then we'll talk about other things." Davy looks out across the crowd. "Let's us lovers find a preacher." He points at a tall man in black coat. "Sir! You there! Are you a preacher? Well, who cares, you'll do, now just say the words, now...

Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn't gotten around to informing James yet.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.