Quotes About Commitment

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul.

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

A person does not leave a good marriage for someone else.

Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.