What Is Marriage Quotes

We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

There's a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

Luck is one of the most important things in the world and really has a role to play in everything, and in marriage, I've been lucky enough to be married to the same girl for all these years.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

We want playmates we can own.

Taking time for each other is the key for harmony in the home [and in marriage].

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.

[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

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

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married