Quotes About Marriage

And it enjoyed one other distinction: The Hilton had been, since the day it opened, one of the few civilized establishments in Turkey where a well-heeled gentleman and a courageous lady could obtain a room without being asked for a marriage certificate.

The truth is contentment. Love and marriage are but a means to obtaining it

According to my father, the greatest happiness in life was to marry the girl you'd spent your youth reading books with in the passionate pursuit of a shared ideal.

Solo después de casarse descubrió Galip que en la vida de aquella persona anónima a la que las estadísticas y los encasillamientos burocráticos llaman ama de casa (aquella mujer con detergente e hijos que Galip jamás había podido relacionar con Rüya) existía una región así de secreta, así de misteriosa y así de resbaladiza.

After becoming engaged to my grandfather, and before marrying him, she did something rather brave in Istanbul in 1917—she went out with him to a restaurant.

Asl?nda hemen evlenelim demeliydim ona. Toplumumuzu ayakta tutan pek çok saÄŸlam evlilik bu tür f?rt?nal? ve mutsuz aÅŸklar? unutmak için yap?lm??t?r.

In a marriage, trust is more important than love, as we all know.

Ka plot të rinj që në një periudhë të caktuar të jetës së tyre, dashurohen nën ndikimin e ndonjë fjale, ndonjë historie, të ndonjë libri të lexuar së bashku; martohen me të dashurat e tyre me të njëjtin gëzim dhe jetojnë të lumtur, pa e kuptuar kurrë këtë iluzion të fshehur pas ethes të tyre dashurore.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine. And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

A man without a wife and babies is a menace to civilization... One bachelor is an irritation. Ten thousand bachelors are a war.

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage... As chairman emeritus of the extreme right-wing National Organization for Marriage

marriage is not a covenant between a man and a woman... Marriage is a covenant between a man and woman on the one side and their community on the other. To marry according to the law of the community is to become a full citizen; to refuse marriage is to be a stranger, a child, an outlaw, a slave, or a traitor. The one constant in every society of human kind is that only those who obey the laws, tabus, and customs of marriage are true adults.

Fools say, 'Why should we marry? Love is the only bond my lover and I need.' To them I say, 'Marriage is not a covenant between man and woman; …. Marriage is a covenant between a man and a woman on one side and the community on the other. To marry according to the law of the community is to become a full citizen; to refuse marriage is to be a stranger, a child, an outlaw, a slave, a traitor.

She loved him. He loved her. In the absence of understanding, that was as good a reason as any for living together and making babies and raising them up and throwing them out of the house and then going through the long slow decline together until one of them died and left the other alone again, understanding as little as ever about what their spouses really wanted, who they really were.

With gay marriage, the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.

Mama Squirrel laughed out loud and shook her head. "I swear I don't know why Margaret Larner would marry such a one as you." "It was an act of faith," said Alvin.

There's no part of the ceremony where the priest, acting in the place of God, warns the guests not to murder the bridegroom because it might jeopardize the succession.

If I had any part of you in me," said Han Fei-tzu, "I would not have needed to marry you to become a complete person.

After twenty-five years of marriage, they could see each other clearly without having to look.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.