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Quotes About Marriage

Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.
~ Unknown
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
~ Unknown
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
~ Unknown
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
~ Ralph Emerson
The innkeeper loves a drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
~ Jewish proverb
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
~ Ogden Nash
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
~ Pope John Paul II
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. Mark 10:9
~ Bible
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
~ Ashley Montague
When I look at you every aged phrase is new, and there are moments when it seems Ive married one of Shakespeares dreams.
~ Ogden Nash
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
~ Unknown
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
~ Dick Martin
What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate
~ Bible
Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children
~ Bertrand Russell
We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily bodys needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.
~ Demosthenes
The lover in the husband may be lost
~ Unknown
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love
~ Ellen Key
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl
~ Stephen Leacock
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
~ Helen Rowland
Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
~ Marguerite Gardiner
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
~ Boris Pasternak
Love is so much better when you're not married.
~ Maria Callas
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
~ Ambrose Bierce