Quotes About Commitment

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be so grossly over-populated as it is now

If you adore her, you must adorn her. There lies the secret of a happy marriage.

There are many women who are happy to be married, but only a few who are married happily.

A good marriage is the exception that proves who rules.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman

He that takes a wife, takes care

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

The first bond of society is marriage.

Marriage is a great institution.

Marriages are made in heaven and are consummated on earth.

They who marry for wealth sell their own liberty

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Marriage is the tomb of love

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

I talk marriage; they talk weddings!

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part