Quotes About Marriage

Less than ten thousand Choctaw people actually made it here on the Trail of Tears, and they all married each other way back when, so there you go. We're all family somehow or other.

I don't want someone who's just with me until things get a little too difficult, or something better comes along, or marriage isn't as much fun as it used to be. I want the real thing-for better or worse, rich, poor, sickness, health, forever and ever, amen.

Alasdair considered it. "Well, I would prefer she vanish from the face of the earth," he finally said. "I would prefer you to be able to marry again. But since that is not possible unless one of us gives her a shove down the well- and we'd have to look to Esmee for that; she's the only one with the mettle for it - then we must think of the child instead.

Todos sus esfuerzos iban dirigidos a perfeccionar sus talentos naturales con el fin de lograr casarse con el hombre perfecto.

The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.

Didn't you hear about the study that came out of England? The smarter you are, the less likely you are of getting married. The dumb girls are getting the guys.' 'So, you say that you give facials for a living, instead of that you're a lawyer who graduated with top honors from Harvard Law School?' 'Yes, and it works.

We've been down the road of your hasty exits too many times, Mrs. Danvers. You married your master, and you married a sadist--of your own free will. You might remember that when you're tempted to walk out in a huff, defy my orders, and behave like a selfish brat. You got that?

The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. – Abu Said ibn Abi al-Khair

In Interior Castle she describes seven different "mansions" of the soul and the progress by which prayer and spiritual practice take us into the innermost place of mystical marriage of the soul with God. In The Life of

It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so jointed that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Tequila--a sure cure for monogamy.

A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.

Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

If it looks like a cat, walks like a cat, and has whiskers like a cat, it's probably a damn cat. But if it eats your groceries, messes up your kitchen, and makes you want to rip out your hair by the roots, you either married it or gave birth to it

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.

I will be a good wife," she thought, "that all the earth will know there is a God in Israel.

The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

Muchos se casan aprisa que a llorar despacio van.

The bride, the white bride today a maiden, tomorrow a wife.

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Ever since I got married I've been thinking night and day about whose fault it was, and every time I think about it, out comes a new fault to eat up the old one; but always there's a fault left.