Quotes About Marriage

He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry.

A happy wife is a happy life," he said, echoing a popular rich-man truism.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Qué es lo que define a un hombre? ¿Cuál es la primera pregunta que se le hace a un hombre cuando quieres informarte de su estado? En algunas sociedades le preguntan primero si está casado, si tiene hijos; en las nuestras, se le pregunta en primer lugar su profesión. Lo que define ante todo al hombre occidental es el puesto que ocupa en el proceso de producción.

In one particularly witty, stinging passage, he wrote, "Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.

it wasn't until recently that we saw marriage as a winning issue rather than a losing one.

another important aspect of the marriage-equality movement that gives us some guidance moving forward is that it was driven not by the Beltway but by average Americans who wanted equality and who worked with visionary legal advocates.

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That's an astounding fact and it isn't until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

You've got two witnesses here. Happiness is a wholeness issue. If you want to be happy, you need to be whole. If you want to be married, you simply need a mate. If you want to be happily married, you need to be a whole person married to another whole person.

Many women have married primarily for money and found themselves miserable. No amount of trinkets and possessions can fill a heart

I mean I want you be happy, not just for your own sake but because that's the only way a marriage works.

But it is not an option for women like myself and Rose Bertin. Men want wives who are sweet and good with children, not women who plan and watch the accounts

I can wait. I am in love with you, Marie. You don't have to say it yet. I know you like to think things through. Make plans. But plan on this. I want to marry you.

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

I've thought far more about marriage in recent months than I ever did before. What is the marriage contract? The general assumption we have about marriage is that it involves two people building a life together. But what I wonder is this: Does it require each person to give up the life they built before? Must we shed our former selves? Do we have to give up that which was once important to us as a sacrifice to the gods of marriage?

Owen's gaze flicked to me again. "Maybe you're right. And what a wonderful change it is. Tell me, Sarah, how on earth do you put up with Monsieur de Bennicoeur's dour ways? You must feel as if you've married a high school principal." I shrugged. "Guess that's my type. The dourer the better, I say." "I'm not dour," Thierry said dourly.