Quotes About Marriage

Marriage is not synonymous to change but a new dimension to life.

Courtship is romantic. Marriage ... is an act of will," said Pippa, taking a sip of water. "I mean, I adore Herb. But the marriage functions because we will it to. If you leave love to hold everything together, you can forget it.

I like everything about women except marrying one. But Grandmother is adamant. Either I marry or I'll be disinherited.

The Appalachian Mountains. Perhaps a little more uncivilized than he cared for, but anything was better than marriage.

Dad is looking at the bookshelves, deep in thought, deciding which book should go where. Once, Mom came home from work and discovered that he had turned all the books around so that the bindings were against the wall and the pages faced out. He said it was calming not to have all those words floating around and "creating static." Mom made him turn them back. She said it was too hard to find a book when she couldn't read the titles. Then she poured herself a big glass of wine.

Let's say everyone has nine thousand things about themselves," Em had explained to Tab and Bridge in sixth grade, "and say two people fall in love because it seems like all their things match up. But what they don't know is that only like a thousand of their things actually match up. My mom says most people who get married don't even know those other eight thousand things about themselves yet. So it could happen to anyone.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

She's your partner in all things. Remember how Ma and Pa used to act?' Simon nodded as he sat beside him. 'Every decision, every action taken together.' James raised his brows as he leaned against the wall. 'That's a tall order. Based on some of the married folks I've seen in town, not every marriage is such a joyful union.

You want to hear what kind of woman I'd accept as a wife? Tall enough to fit under my chin, sunny hair, warm disposition, backbone to argue her side of the matter, grace to give in when she sees it's important to me. Someone who understands what I do and respects me for it. You find me a woman like that, and I may have to rethink my decision not to wed.

A husband and wife should complete each other, support each other. God gave Adam a helpmate, not an object to be put on a shelf or worshiped from afar.

You cant hurry love. I guess you cant hurry divorce either! Neither should be treated lightly.

Commitment Now, nobody can have unity on his or her own. You cannot be married on your own. There is no such thing as an independent believer. You cannot have unity by belonging nowhere.

Mensen moeten niet trouwen,' zei Panda. 'Kind, praat geen onzin,' zei Jens. 'Mensen moeten zoveel mogelijk trouwen. Het leven is maar kort, al lijkt het je nu misschien lang, en het is de enige manier om in ieder geval een paar mensen goed gekend te hebben, voor het grondwater je bloed wegspoelt en de wormen je hart leegvreten. En het is de enige manier om jezelf te leren kennen. dat heeft natuurlijk z'n nadelen.

I'd like to look like a wife with two kids who's been married for ten years and been in love every single day of it. - from Boo

if he had married Mrs. Albert Grantham for her money I freely admit that no man marries without a reason and with her it would have been next to impossible to think up another one....

Yes, I said something to him, and then I cooled him off." "Cooled? By what process?" "I knocked him halfway across Broadway and took my wife." "You did?" Wolfe scowled at him. "What's the matter with your brain? Does it leak?

The sight of a pretty girl provokes in him an overwhelming reaction of appreciation and approval, and correlatively his acquisitive instinct, but he has never married. Why not? Because he knows that if he had a wife, his reaction to pretty girls, now pure and frank and free, would not only be intolerably adulterated but would also be under surveillance and subject to restriction by authority. So the governor always stops him short of disaster.

Okay, Dolly Brooke killed her because she was going to marry a quote nigger unquote, and how do we prove it?' He frowned. 'I have told you not to use that word in my hearing.' 'I was merely quoting. It isn't - ' 'Shut up. I mean the word 'unquote' and you know it.

Some day, Archie, when I decide you are no longer worth tolerating, you will have to marry a woman of very modest mental capacity to get an appropriate audience for your wretched sarcasms.

My husband says I feed him like he's a god; every meal is a burnt offering.

husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a

who've been treated like garbage by their horrible husbands and would rather wait for widowhood than endure a divorce.

Mummy always had French maids, and Daddy always chased them. It kept their marriage happy.