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Quotes About Marriage

The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. "Mawidge," he said. "Vewy old.
~ William Goldman
I'll never love you. I wouldn't want it if I had it. Then by all means let us marry.
~ William Goldman
Back, Witch— I'm not a witch, I'm your wife—
~ William Goldman
Sono il tuo Principe e non sono così male... Come puoi preferire la morte piuttosto che sposarmi?» «Perché» replicò Buttercup «matrimonio significa amore, e non è il mio passatempo preferito».
~ William Goldman
Non ti amerò mai». «Non saprei che farmene, del tuo amore». «Va bene, allora sposiamoci».
~ William Goldman
Probabilmente sono troppo stanca» inventò Buttercup. «L'eccitazione e tutto il resto». «Riposati, allora» l'ammonì sua madre. «Quando sei troppo stanca ti succedono cose tremende. Ero troppo stanca la sera in cui tuo padre mi ha chiesto di sposarlo».
~ William Goldman
Soy tu príncipe y te casarás conmigo —le dijo Humperdinck. —Soy vuestra sierva y me niego —susurró Buttercup. —Soy tu príncipe y no puedes negarte. —Soy vuestra sierva fiel y acabo de hacerlo. —Negarte significa la muerte. —Matadme entonces.
~ William Goldman
we can speak of marriage as an adventure, but only because for disciples, marriage is now subsumed under the category of an aspect of our adventure in Christ. How on earth could we explain how ordinary people could risk commitment to another person for a lifetime, especially since we have no way of knowing all the implications that this commitment entails?
~ William H. Willimon
I always envied you, having a husband you could boss.
~ William Inge
When the cops were unable to catch a man named James "Bluebeard" Watson, who'd married eighteen women and killed at least seven of them, Harris
~ William J. Mann
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.
~ William James
In the Third Reich every German girl will find a husband!
~ William L. Shirer
I was bad at money but had amassed some. I couldn't claim that marriage was my real skill, but I was better at it than many. I'd had two previous husbands and a wife. I'd lost them to changes of predilection, without rancour—as I say, I wasn't bad at marriage. Scile was my fourth spouse.
~ China Mieville
A foolish husband fears his wife; a prudent wife obeys her husband.
~ Chinese
If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk; If you want to be happy for three days, get married; If you want to be happy forever, make a garden.
~ Chinese proverb
Knowledge does not change behavior," he said. "We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors." He knew that telling the mothers about nutrition wouldn't change their behavior. They'd have to practice it.
~ Chip Heath
But they were devout Catholics, and they had tremendous faith in their marriage. She said that every night, after a tough day, they'd put their hands together in bed so that their rings touched, and they'd repeat their wedding vows to each other.
~ Chip Heath
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage," became the most e-mailed article on the Times website in 2006, and it led to a book on the same topic.
~ Chip Heath
Sometimes he sang to me, making me smile because he was always slightly off-key, my husband who was so perfect at everything else. For me, that was part of his charm.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
She feels a certain pity when she thinks of that time, that self. Such an earnest wife-self, wanting so much, her stance one of perpetual leaning forward, as though perfection was a town just a little farther down the road. She didn't know then that perfection had nothing to do with happiness.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
To think that I'll have to go and live with a stranger. That I'm supposed to belong to some man I haven't even met as soon as he puts a garland around my neck. Oh, why can't I just remain single? Why must I be yoked to a man like a cart to a buffalo?
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Ram wasn't shy about telling me what pleased him, and he asked me what I liked until I overcame my shyness and answered. Bedtime became at once exciting and joyful, a secret gift I looked forward to all day while we went about our separate duties—his as heir-apparent, mine as new bride.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
At some point you do not need to talk to have a conversation. The conversation exists whether you have it or not. It continues silently in a parallel dimension of the marriage. They both pause to let it run its course toward another stalemate.
~ Chris Bachelder
I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That's my view, and that'll be the view of our state because I wouldn't sign a bill that - like the one that was in New York.
~ Chris Christie