Quotes About Marriage

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.

He had read somewhere that when a man marries a woman, he hopes she will stay the same forever, but when a woman marries a man, her agenda is to change him.

By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.

tolerancia fomenta la ética individual, y no confía en el compromiso. No es casualidad que el Nuevo Testamento piense que la relación entre Cristo y la iglesia es análoga a la que existe entre el marido y la mujer; o de que hoy día la gente se muestre reacia a entrar en el acto matrimonial.

And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ëwoman,í for out of man she was taken.”

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

And Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah.

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abramís wife was named Sarai, and Nahorís wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ëThis is his wife.í Then they will kill me but will let you live.

So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didnít you tell me she was your wife?

Why did you say, ëShe is my sister,í so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ëSurely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.í

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

and I will have you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am dwelling,

but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my fatherís house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ëTo your offspring I will give this landí—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

My master made me swear an oath and said, ëYou shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,

but you shall go to my fatherís house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.í