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Quotes About Commitment

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
~ Joseph Campbell
Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
~ Evelyn Hendrickson
Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer
~ Unknown
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination
~ Samuel Johnson
Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention
~ Nick Faldo
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
~ Nick Faldo
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
~ Samuel Johnson
Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
~ Samuel Johnson
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
~ Nanette Newman
Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.
~ Claudia Cardinale
The people who marry make a good marriage not marriage in itself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
~ Sacha Guitry
Marriage is the best of all evils.
~ Unknown
There are two possibilities in a marriage: Either it lasts forever or it seems like eternity.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.
~ DH Lawrence
To marry and be happy would be the eighth wonder of the world.
~ Unknown
Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.
~ Unknown
Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time.
~ Georges Courteline
At the very least marriage is a miscarriage of expectation, at its worst a wrenching disappointment with destiny.
~ Bill Cosby
For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
~ Bill Cosby
The single most important thing that anyone can do in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, with the right authority.
~ Unknown
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
~ George Jessel
Marriage...we cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
~ Michel de Montaigne
My first wedding makes me proud in front of people.
~ Greek proverb