Quotes About Sacrifice

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

The secret of a happy marriage is to serve God and each other.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.

Marriage is like pleading guilty to an indefinite sentence. Without parole.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same.

Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle

People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.