Quotes About Marriage

Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don't and that marital relationships usually fail because of too much communication, not too little. Couples who spend a lot of time being quiet together stay together.

when parents have a strong alliance, children show fewer signs of stress, marital relationships are stronger, and children have better relationships with their peers.

To put radically asunder what nature and nature's God joined together in parenthood when he made love procreative, and to disregard the foundation of the covenant of marriage and the covenant of parenthood in the reality that makes for a loving procreation, and to attempt to soar so high above an eminently human parenthood, is inevitably to fall far below - into a vast technological alienation of man.

On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage.

The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other. It is a perpetual exercise in mortification. — St. Francis de Sales

Matrimony. The Devil's first attack on the human race was focused on a married couple.

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.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

How did he die?' 'He shot himself with an Italian pistol he'd bought in Rome just before he married her.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You can see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart.

I love you now more than I ever have in some ways and though different people view their marriage vows differently, I meant mine to the death. I'm ready to be yours forever if you must know it, but since you've fallen in love and want to marry someone else, I feel I have no choice but to move aside and let you do that.

They had as good a shot at making it as anyone did, but what if marriage didn't solve anything and didn't save anyone even a little bit? What then?

Getting married had been all his idea, but he hadn't told her how very afraid of it he was. He seemed to need to force his way through it anyway, as he did with everything that scared him terribly. He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.

I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together. You see them on the street, those couples who've been married so long you can't tell them apart. How'd that be?" "I'd love to look like you," I said. "I'd love to be you.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Perhaps Ernest's marriage meant, as I'd said, that there was no cliff to fling myself from. But what did that matter when love itself was an ocean, and you could drown in even a teacup of it?

We were married at All Saints on a sun-shocked Wednesday in October, two weeks before my seventeenth birthday. The legal marrying age was eighteen then, but my father thought I was old enough, and that seemed good enough for me.

We were both straining to bend and compromise for the other. But that was what marriage was about, wasn't it?

I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds of marriages they had and how they loved or hurt each other on any given day, and if they were happy, and whether they thought happiness was a sustainable thing.

Or perhaps I'll learn the difference between a boy's dreams and a man's." He paused, and then said, "When I marry, my father will live again in my sons." He

The man who wants to marry me is very rich and strong. He lives near here. He built his house in three days." "A proper house or a hut?" he wanted to know. "A real house, with shingles and a pitched roof, and glass windows." He was silent for a moment, and I was sure I'd finally impressed him. "Three days," he said at last. "There is no wisdom in such hurrying. This house will not stand long.

I never thought I'd get married," I told Boy as he poured for us. Scotch spilled into the squat glasses with reassuring lapping noises. "I should have left well enough alone." "You don't need to explain.

When we'd settled out of earshot, she said, "Sorry if Blix and I scared you away last night. It's not often we're alone. Being married to other people will do that.