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Quotes About Commitment

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.
~ Nancy Pearcey
Am I keeping my promises?
~ Robert Breault
Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
~ Aryn Kyle
You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.
~ Felicity Huffman
There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.
~ John Sandford
A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.
~ Nicholas Sparks, True Believer
Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.
~ Kiera Cass, The Elite
A good marriage is good because one or both of them have learned to overlook the other's faults, to love the other as they are and to not attempt to change them or bring them to repentance.
~ Debi Pearl
Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle
~ Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle
Marriage is holy and it's private.
~ Marlene Van Niekerk, Agaat
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
~ Jess C. Scott, Playmates
I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
~ Rob Delaney
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
~ William Faulkner
I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.
~ Jerry O'Connell
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.
~ Marilyn Manson
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.
~ Amanda Seyfried
We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.
~ George W. Bush
Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.
~ Dorothy Richardson
Marriage is something that should be tried at least once. It's educational.
~ Helen Nielsen
People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.
~ James Branch Cabell
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
~ Samuel Richardson