What Is Marriage Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Two wives? That exceeds the custom.

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

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

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

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

Happiness is love, nothing else.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say she's my best friend. That's not a given, it's a process.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with.

If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.

To me [my marriage to Kim Kardashian] was real. I would never go through something or do something that wasn't real or I didn't believe in, so I can really only speak for myself in terms of that.

Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

I am in love and out of it I will not go.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

I'll take a foot fetish with a man and his wife over a foot fetish with a man and his mistress any day. I don't care what they do. You go with it with your marriage and have a good time.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?

Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

An open marriage is nature's way of telling you that you need a divorce.

Marriage is grand. Divorce is about twenty grand.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

According to a new study, women in satisfying marriages are less likely to develop cardiovascular diseases than unmarried women. So don't worry, lonely women, you'll be dead soon.

You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

As the family goes, so go the children.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . . .

There is no place love is not.

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.