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Quotes About Marriage

It's not her fault she can't cook." "You are too nice natured, darling. You won't get anywhere in this world being kind and generous. You must turn into a lioness like me and gobble up people who disagree with you." "I'm not very good at gobbling," I said. "And I want to like people, and be liked by them." She sighed. "The sooner you get married and have babies to adore the better.
~ Rhys Bowen
Not to marry?" "Someday maybe." I blushed when I said this, glad it was dark. "But not until I know who I am and what I want.
~ Rhys Bowen
Golly," Phoebe said again. "Do you think that will happen this time? Do you think by the end of this war there will be no men left for me to marry?
~ Rhys Bowen
I'm not completely sure yet whether I want to marry at all," I said. "To tell you the truth, I don't like the thought of being under the thumb of some man for the rest of my life. It seems to me that women are expected to surrender all freedom and individuality when they become wives.
~ Rhys Bowen
You are a married couple, I take it?" And she gave us a hard stare, trying to see a wedding ring through my gloves, I suspected. "Of course," Darcy said briskly. "Mr. and Mrs. Chomondley-Fanshaw. That's spelled 'Featherstonehaugh,' by the way.
~ Rhys Bowen
My father is the son of a vicar and rose to become a judge. My mother is solidly middle class. Her father was a bank manager. But she has grand ideas. She was set on my marrying a title.
~ Rhys Bowen
My father in turn had done his duty and married the daughter of a frightfully correct English earl. She gave birth to my brother, looked around at her utterly bleak Highland surroundings, and promptly died.
~ Rhys Bowen
Con razón decía uno:—Algo tendrá, el matrimonio, cuando necesita bendición de cura.
~ Ricardo Palma
Querido lector, querida lectora: todo matrimonio es un reality show, una prueba para los nervios y los pasados y las violencias, y un experimento cruel para que todos los demás, todos los testigos que miran de reojo, confirmen y sigan creyendo que el fracaso es el destino de los otros: "pobres…
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Tengo una versión oficial de esta parte de la historia que, sin embargo, cada vez se me parece más a la verdad: que todo hombre debe haberse divorciado al menos una vez antes de casarse de verdad
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Pensaba en darle las gracias a ella por haberlo salvado de andar por ahí- y ese, si uno quiere, puede ser el sentido del matrimonio: librarlo a uno de uno mismo e impedirle perderse en sus ficciones- creyéndose por encima del bien y del mal, comiéndose el cuento chino de su propio triunfo
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
todo hombre debe haberse divorciado al menos una vez antes de casarse de verdad.
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Because the ice cream would be a coup d'état, in one fell swoop staking her social territory, plastering her brand across gossip sites, and launching the battleship of her marriage,
~ Rich Horton
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
~ Richard Armour
He had a nice little house of his own, a wife whom he loved dearly, and two children, named Janie and Bill.
~ Richard Atwater
Third, the church must recognize and teach that marriage is grounded not in feelings of love but in the practice of love. Nor is the marriage bond contingent upon self-gratification or personal fulfillment. The church has swallowed a great quantity of pop psychology that has no foundation in the biblical depiction of marriage; consequently, critical discrimination is necessary in order to restore an understanding of marriage based on the New Testament.
~ Richard B. Hays
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so [literally "let him/her separate"]; in such a case the brother or sister is not bound. It is to peace that God has called us.37 (7:15) This declaration implies a crucial claim: participation in the community of faith is the most fundamental commitment, more basic than marriage. The line that divides the new creation from the old can run right through a marriage.
~ Richard B. Hays
If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
~ Richard Bach
There is a great deal of duty that husband and wife owe to one another, such as to instruct, admonish, pray, watch over one another, and be continual helpers to each other in order to their everlasting happiness; they must also patiently bear with the infirmities of each other.
~ Richard Baxter
Our wedding on Necker. A week later Sam said of a friend's wedding, "But they can't be getting married. They haven't had any children yet." Private Collection.
~ Richard Branson
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
SIR OLIVER. Egad so He does — mercy on me — He's greatly altered — and seems to have a settled married look — one may read Husband in his Face at this Distance.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Taking care of your marriage and your partner is an act of love for your children.
~ Richard Bromfield
Latin women, you may love them, but may not marry them."'Latin Fiancé Visa' written by Richard Clément. ISBN-13: 978-1951630430
~ Richard Clement