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Quotes About Commitment

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.
~ Bob Monkhouse
The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to.
~ Ruth Stout
Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you.
~ Dov Davidoff
Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.
~ Esther Perel
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
~ Will Rogers
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.
~ Ann Landers
Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.
~ John Mortimer
I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
~ Sally Kirkland
Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.
~ Cathy Ladman
Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.
~ Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
~ Carla Bruni
Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
~ Rita Rudner
Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.
~ Timothy J. Keller
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
~ Paul Reiser, Couplehood
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
~ Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
~ Pearl S. Buck
A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.
~ Debra Winger
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
~ Mike Birbiglia