What Is Marriage Quotes

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

A successful marriage is a decision. You decide whether it's going to work, and then you turn around and you've been married 45 years.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

I've noticed that people who get married cease to be curious.

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.

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.

Love is the law of life.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

[I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

Marriage is like the Middle East, isn't it? There's no solution.

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

In or out of marriage, abortion is not an individual choice. At a minimum, three lives are involved.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part.

It is true, that all married men have their own way, but the trouble is they don't all have their own way of having it.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage

My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.

I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

I yearned for a long, happy marriage with one person.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.