Quotes About Commitment

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Marriage is not a reform school.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.

He felt married to her, that was all.

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things.

Marriage is the cold potato of love.

The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.

To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can be brought for an example that it may be done and not repented afterwards.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

The secret of marriage is thinking that your partner is better than yourself.

When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

Actually, I have to say that I don't believe in having a sexual realtionship outside of marriage.

Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

There aren't many great adverts for marriage or parenthood. It always looks so stressful, and that's what I've been scared of. What you don't realise is how much you're going to get back.

In a marriage, you and your partner come first.