What Is Marriage Quotes

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

I should have been out there having a wild time like all the other girls my age, but I wasn't. I was going home every night to what was, initially, a very happy marriage.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.

Happiness is love, nothing else.

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.

Of course I believe in marriage. Commitment to one other person in life is glorious.

Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat.

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Placing blame in marriage is like saying, 'Your side of the boat is sinking.'

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.

With marriage, you've just got to stick it out. You can't jump off the boat at the first bump in the waves.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.