Quotes About Marriage

Steve's mother threw us an engagement party for Queensland friends and family, and I encountered a very common theme: "We never thought Steve would get married." Everyone said it--relatives, old friends, and schoolmates. I'd smile and nod, but my inner response was, Well, we've got that in common. And something else: Wait until I get home and tell everybody I am moving to Australia.

From the very first, I was welcomed into the Irwin family. The greatest thing was that I felt Lyn and Bob loved me not just because I was married to Steve, but for myself, for who I was. That gave me confidence to feel at home as a new arrival to Australia.

Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can't remember who they were) who'd been married for many, many years. Asked for the secret of their long partnership, they said: "We fell straight into conversation when we met, and we haven't come to the end of that conversation yet." I can't think of a better model for marriage than that. Or of a narrative more romantic . . . .

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

love Mary and die… Mad about Mary – 1 Many Scottish lords became Protestant because it gave them a chance to grab more power. But the Earl of Huntly stayed loyal. 'I'll bring the Catholic Church back to three counties!' he boasted. Then he suggested that Mary might like to marry his son, John Gordon. Brilliant idea! Powerful Catholic lord

The most feasible way of getting a woman to go to bed with you was to marry her.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living!

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

Part of the oddity of marriage, she thought, was in how unwise it was to attend too intently to the other person. In order for love to survive, you had to close yourself off to a certain extent.

Once they had been equal in their separate freedoms. They had set out to have children as lightly as if they were playing house, and now her necessarily domestic life bored him, and she was bound to it in her body and imagination. This imbalance was fated, built into their biology.

The different colors represent the husband and the wife. What will happen when they're kneaded together? The colors could mix; they could divide neatly down the middle; one color could completely overwhelm the other—whatever happens, the two smaller balls are going to smash together and recreate themselves as a one, slightly bigger ball. That's my take on marriage.

Con qué emoción se encontraron los dos esposos, para quienes el matrimonio no era sino la pasión permitida por Dios y por los hombres!

A husband is the chief ornament of a wife, though she have no other ornament; but, though adorned, without a husband she has no ornaments.

He was hurling words at his shrinking wife like clods or bricks and she was not dodging but receiving them like a willing saint, enduring abuse like a terrible balm.

[Of two suitors for his daughter's hand:] I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.

I believe in marriage. I believe marriage is a really important institution, it's one of the most important institutions we have.

Marriage is the best compromise between nature and culture.