Quotes About Commitment

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.

Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.

Marriage is like a fort, those who are in want out, those who are out want in.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is a matter of being the right person

I am marrying her because I love her.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.

Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are outside want to get in, and those inside want to get out

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.