Quotes About Marriage

In Punjabi culture a girl is paraya dhan – the property of others is the literal meaning of the phrase. Her father, then her husband, is responsible for her. She is never her own person. She is a costly expense to her parents, as a dowry is expected, and after they have spent everything on her the benefit is enjoyed by the family she marries into.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

When I was growing up, my mother taught me the language of birds; and when I got married, I used to be listening to their conversation; and I would be laughing; and my wife would be asking what was the reason of my laughing, but I did not like to tell her

He is the Way. Follow Him through the Land of Unlikeness; You will see rare beasts, and have unique adventures. He is the Truth. Seek Him in the Kingdom of Anxiety; You will come to a great city that has expected your return for years. He is the Life. Love Him in the World of the Flesh; And at your marriage all its occasions shall dance for joy.

If people marry on the assumption that love must always overcome obstacles, they will either become unfaithful or they will make things difficult. The better you know someone, the better you can torture him: man and wife become each other's devils.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went. He was married and added five children to the population, Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation, And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education. Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.

I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

I am a computer illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.

I'm a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

Being a husband and a dad is my inspiration.

I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

I'm Adron's baby sister. Dad just told me about the marriage, and I had to come meet you and make sure Dad hadn't snapped a wheel and started hallucinating or something. (Zarina)

I'm justthe reason they married.Mum saysI was a surprise.Dad saysI was an accident.Truth is ...I am their mistake.