Quotes About Marriage

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Aunque en la mayor parte de las sociedades de nivel estatal un varón respetable normal y corriente podía ser infiel en el matrimonio, mantener queridas y visitar prostitutas, las mujeres respetables normales y corrientes se exponían casi universalmente a duras sanciones si manifestaban cualquier tendencia promiscua o poliándrica.

In view of the frequent occurrence of modern domestic groups that do not consist of, or contain, an exclusive pair-bonded father and mother, I cannot see why anyone should insist that our ancestors were reared in monogamous nuclear families and that pair-bonding is more natural than other arrangements.

On that day he came forth from the bridal chamber as one born of a bridegroom and a bride.

God the Father invented the family. He's the one who determines its meaning, purpose, and role. He's the one who instituted marriage as a lifelong covenant between husband and wife. He's the one who enables couples to be fruitful and multiply. He's the Pat?r (Father) from whom every patria (family) in heaven and earth is named. Marriage and family were created by Him and exist for Him.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

The woman who can whisper in her husband's ear wields more power de facto, or rather is often alleged to, than the colleagues who can only send official requests and memos.

A woman did not take her husband's name or fall entirely under his legal authority. After the death of her father, an adult woman could own property in her own right, buy and sell, inherit or make a will and free slaves – many of the rights that women in Britain did not gain till the 1870s.

In fact, a marriage was normally contracted, as the Romans put it, 'by practice': that is, in our terms, 'by cohabitation'. If you lived together for a year, you were married. It

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?

But I need a ride back to town," Grace called after them. "You're not getting a ride back to town, woman. You're married!" Daniel might as well have been a cougar trapped in this cave with her. She'd have felt no safer. "I'm what?

He wondered why she wasn't happy. After all, she now had a man to take care of her. Wasn't that all a woman wanted? She'd actually hurt his feelings just a little bit when she'd agreed so gruffly to his proposal. The little woman should be at least as happy as he was.

No, Grace, it's not 'Miss Calhoun.'" Daniel had heard her say those words many times. They'd always set his teeth on edge. "It's Mrs. Reeves." Daniel added with angry triumph, "And guess what? I'm calling you Grace and the boys are calling you Ma.

There is no end of good that comes from being married to a smart woman.

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.