What Is Marriage Quotes

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

The cafe was called Tattoos. The fella who owned it didn't have any tattoos... but we never saw his wife.

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage -- everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

I think I should date a normal girl. I am tired of dating heroines. While I believe in marriage as an institution, I am also petrified of it.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.

Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

There is no secret to a long marriage - it's hard work...It's serious business, and certainly not for cowards.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.