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Quotes About Commitment

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred
~ Rudyard Kipling
One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague
~ Robert Burton
Marriage is a covered dish
~ Unknown
All the molestations of marriage are abundantly recompensed with the other comforts which God bestoweth on them who make a wise choice of a wife
~ Thomas Fuller
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Well, don't just pray to marry the one you love; Instead, pray to love the one you marry.
~ Unknown
Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive
~ Samuel Johnson
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice in the matter
~ Samuel Johnson
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is a dinner that begins with dessert.
~ Unknown
The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
~ Eleanora Duse
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
~ Jerry Lewis
There would be more good marriages if the marriage partners didn't live together.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Its not that I want to get married. I admire guys who can commit to a tattoo.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Although marriages traditionally begin with I do, when they fail they invariably end with You dont.
~ Judith Viorst
For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.
~ Judith Viorst
Why do men so eagerly take the leash of marriage into their mouths as if it was going to be just a walk in the park.
~ Robert Graves
Marriage is a contradiction in terms of endearment.
~ Robert Graves
I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.
~ Johnny Carson
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn't amount to conviction.
~ Unknown
We need a witness to our lives. There's a billion people on the planet... I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything. The good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things... all of it, all of the time, every day. You're saying 'Your life will not go unnoticed because I will notice it. Your life will not go un-witnessed because I will be your witness'.
~ Susan Sarandon
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
~ Irwin Corey
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
~ Edmond About
Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair
~ Unknown