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Quotes About Marriage

For a man, the baby completes the marriage. For a woman the baby completes herself.
~ Unknown
And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when ashore, it did make for a curious gathering when the spouses were invited to a ball.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Well, Killick, I trust you are not rushing into matrimony without due consideration? Matrimony is a very serious thing.' 'Oh no, sir. I considered of it: I considered of it, why, the best part of twenty minutes. There was three to choose on, and this here Ã¢â'¬â€œÃ¢â'¬â"¢ looking fondly at his purchase – 'was the pick of the bunch.
~ Patrick O'Brian
A sailor, who may be absent for years, throws impossible strains on his wife. If she is a woman of any degree of temperament at all there is of course the question of chastity; and in either case there is that of command or perhaps I should say of decision.
~ Patrick O'Brian
I matrimoni degli altri sono una perpetua fonte di perplessità», commentò Stephen.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Christian Nice Wives might also bury valid marriage concerns in a misguided attempt to fulfill 1 Peter 3:1–4. They may believe the "gentle and quiet spirit" praised in this passage means that they should muffle their authentic self, as if wives who hide their hearts under a heavy wool blanket please God the most.
~ Unknown
There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these.
~ Paul Graham
They celebrated in a bar, and after half a dozen cocktails came to the mutual decision that it would be a blast to get married. So Lisa bought a couple of rings in a pawnshop and they did the deed in the hotel chapel, reading their vows in Klingon off an iPhone in front of a guy in golden robes and Spock ears.
~ Unknown
Buy this book or I'll take it personally, and I will have my revenge. I'll steal your girlfriend or make out with your dad. It doesn't matter to me. Whichever will hurt worse. My vengeance knows no sexuality. You don't want this. Your dad does though. Yeah, like you didn't know your parents' marriage was a sham. Come on. Open your fucking eyes.
~ Paul Neilan
we wonder what the fuss was about and aren't sure that our own government is doing any better, or even that it is a government that represents us. It seems more to be the government of an uneasy marriage between old orthodoxy and old revolutionaries, and such people have nothing to say to us that we want to hear.
~ Paul Scott
Gringo, she could have made you happy!" "I would have made my wife very unhappy.
~ Paul Theroux
For Sale: Complete set of encylopedias. Never used. Wife knows everything.
~ Paul Zindel
When are you getting married?' 'After graduation, stupid.
~ Paul Zindel
fate is strange.. almost no one i know married the first love of their lives. but for those who did are always telling me that they missed soemthing important, that they didn't experience all that they might have.. - by the river piedra i sat down and wept
~ Unknown
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.
~ Paulo Coelho
You are born, go to school, and attend university in search of a husband. You get married - even if he is the worse man in the world - just so that others can't say no one wants you. You have children, grow old, and spend the end of your days watching passersby from a chair on the sidewalk, pretending to know everything about life yet unable to silence the voice in your heart that says: You could try something else.
~ Paulo Coelho
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
~ Paulo Coelho
But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, although they wouldn't go any further than that.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is like a marriage - said the gardener. - Along with the good things, a few little inconveniences always appear.
~ Paulo Coelho
Yes, I'm satisfied, but the problem is you're not, and never will be. You're insecure, afraid of losing everything you've achieved; you don't know how to quit once you're ahead. You'll end up destroying yourself. You're killing our marriage and my love.
~ Paulo Coelho
Son égale ! Mais comment ? Ne suis-je pas sa femme ? Quel autre que lui pourrait me diriger ? N'est-il pas mon maître par la loi ?
~ Pearl Buck
She traveled a lot, got married a lot, divorced a lot, and always carried the scent of patchouli in the multiethnic clothing she invariably wore.
~ Pearl Cleage
It was Wang Lung's marriage day.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~ Pearl S. Buck