Quotes About Marriage

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

We seldom give each other advice–I think that's the success of 25 years of marriage.

It's not helpful for your connection with your husband to discuss with him your hurt or scared feelings about him, but your feelings do deserve airtime. So make sure to honor and express those feelings somewhere else. The more you preserve the intimacy in your marriage by avoiding comments that are disrespectful to or critical of your husband, the less you're going to have those hurtful moments. You'll be too busy laughing together and holding hands.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage." —Sir Robert Anderson, Author

Now it's no longer my goal to be independent. What I want is to be interdependent with my husband.

After all, it is your wedding." Kate kicked me under the table. We always said that if we had a dollar for every time we heard that phrase, we'd be millionaires. If we had a dollar for each time it was sincere, we'd barely be able to split a latte.

She was the curator of her marriage, collector of swift quotes and unremarked-upon sensations.

No, madre. Puedo garantizar que no tiene ninguna marca de nacimiento en ninguna parte de su cuerpo. El rey carraspeó con suavidad. La reina arqueó de nuevo la ceja y el príncipe fue súbitamente consciente de lo que acababa de decir. Miró de reojo a su prometida, azorado;

Dear Lord." She looked at Dani. "Did you see that six-pack? I think it was an eight-pack." Jasper scowled. "Jeez, Christine." "What? I'm married but I'm not dead." Dani

But, perhaps, I should have known then, I should have known that night, standing in the kitchen, that foul meat in the air- looking back on it now, I see that it was the end and the beginning of something more than dinner. More than ruined appetite, a postponed meal, a marriage strained, a freezer unplugged. I could smell the death between them.

Shouldn't the preacher who married the couple in the first place have to fly back in on a broomstick for that, too—that moving on? Shouldn't there be some ritual involving a long walk over hot coals while all the guests who'd been at the wedding watched, weeping, throwing stones at your bare

Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper...then, the one that hurt her teeth to see, Mrs. Brock Connors-as if, by marrying, my father would be himself, and also become her.

Their marriage, I knew then, as I must have always known- their marriage was like a long drink of water so icy it turns the teeth to diamonds in your mouth. A drink of water from a frozen fountain, twenty years long.

I'm still going on bad dates, when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Marriage is a partnership Phillip, not a feudal kingdom. Until you can accept that I have the right to dictate the course of my on life, I will not marry you. Until you can accept my wishes and my opinions are just worthy of consideration as yours, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that what I would give up to be your wife is just as important as what you offer in exchange, I will not marry you.

Marriage is a partnership, Phillip, not a feudal kingdom. Until you can accept that I have the right to dictate the course of my own life, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that my wishes and my opinions are just as worthy of consideration as yours, I will not marry you. Until you can accept that what I would give up to be your wife is just as important as what you offer in exchange, I will not marry you.

Marry me and make an honest man of me in my butler's eyes." He kissed her. "Marry me and save me from having to chase loose women for the rest of my life." He kissed her again. "Marry me, darling," he said once more against her lips. "Because I adore you.

satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies.

Maybe if you never marry a woman, she never becomes a wife.

Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel.

Men don't want candy that's been unwrapped. Maybe for a lark, but not when it comes to marriage. It may still be perfectly clean, but if it's unwrapped, they don't know where it's been.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

The funny thing is that although we place so much energy and importance on our wedding day, it isn't the biggest day of our life. The biggest day of your life is every day thereafter. Because it's not the pledge to love someone that matters, but the act of fulfilling that pledge that is most important. In other words, it's only just begun.