Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.

This was love. It didn't come free, you paid in pain. Your own. But then nobody ever said love was easy. Well, they did, but they were idiots.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him? Ursula wondered. It seemed to her that in the search for arguments against marriage the existence of Maurice presented the very best one of all.

Being flippant was harder work than being earnest

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving. " 'Sacrifice,' " he remembered

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me?

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

It would take one million men, one hundred years

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

There isn't going to be a 'next lover,'" Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. "I'm the only man she's going to have.

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.