Quotes About Marriage

In a signed affidavit, William Law affirmed that Hyrum Smith had read to him a revelation "so called" that authorized certain men to have more than one wife. Jane Law added her own statement, explaining that the purported revelation "set forth that those women who would not allow their husbands to have more wives than one should be under condemnation before God." Their statements were powerful because they were simple, straightforward, and true.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Perhaps the fact that I treated men as friends made it impossible for them to consider me as a wife.

You can't work me, Liv. I know you're a bitch, I know you're cranky, I know you're loving, I know you're smart and funny, I know you're giving and generous. I'm not walking off because you're not flawless. I don't want a diamond, I want a wife. - Marc to Olivia

Does this mean you're going to marry me then?" "I've only been pestering you to marry me since the day we met, Daniel. What clued you in that I'd be interested other than that?

People like to think on marriage or love as something that weighs you down. Holds you back. Marriage is an anchor, but in the best ways it can be said.

The inflections of community are important because they get at the very meanings of marriage. Marriage is a gift God gives the church. He does not simply give it to the married people of the church, but to the whole church, just as marriage is designed not only for the benefit of the married couple. It is designed to tell a story to the entire church, a story about God's own love and fidelity to us

when King Manuel wished to take the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella as his wife

Manuel abruptly changed his mind, decided to remain on the throne, and arranged to marry his son's fiancée

Their marriages are not with one woman but with as many as they like, and without much ceremony

Depois de todos os hábitos de acasalamento e comportamentos que (Marco Polo) presenciara na Ásia, a ideia de monogamia conjugal talvez não fosse de todo bem-vinda.

For four anxious years, from 1554 to 1558, he was the jure uxoris king of England

1200, Polo says, Genghis Khan sent word to Prester John to announce that he wished to marry the priest's daughter.

Verily those giants stand straighter than a horse, and are very jealous of their wives," he observed.

By synthesizing contradictions, you begin to achieve a unity of being and purpose. Unity arises through the equilibration of all opposites into the point of transcendence. You then become a lightning bolt of power, transcending all contradictions. Your total power becomes greater than the sum of your parts. This is the Great Alchemical Marriage that is spoken of in the ancient texts: the annihilation of the two ingredients at the birth of a third.

The perfection of the human state, al-insân al-kâmil, means the perfection of both the masculine and feminine qualities together, and is symbolized by the marriage of Imam 'Ali (the nephew and brother-in-law of Muhammad) and Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad).

From 9 months on, either spouse can buy the farm and the other will be eligible for survivor benefits, as well as mother or father benefits if there are children, and the children themselves—whether premarital, newborn, adopted, or from previous relationships—will be eligible for child survivor benefits.

All three ex-wives can collect spousal and survivor benefits provided they were married at least 10 years

Reminder: your spouse has to have filed for her or his own retirement benefit for you to take a spousal benefit.

Married? You Can Get Maximum Spousal and Retirement Benefits If your husband (wife) files for their retirement benefit (regardless of whether they suspend it), you can, after reaching FRA, file just for a full spousal benefit (half of your spouse's full retirement benefit) and then wait until 70 to collect your largest possible retirement benefit.

Widow/Widower Survivor Benefits—you have to be 60 or over (50 or over if you are disabled) to collect on a deceased ex to whom you were married for at least 10 years provided you didn't remarry before 60 (50 if disabled).

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free," Wharton wrote in her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Age of Innocence.