What Is Marriage Quotes

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

I did commit adultery, if adultery is having a relationship in a marriage with another woman. I learned from that.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.

Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.

Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded.

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes.

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

I love going to weddings. And I love it when my friends get married. I'm not against marriage but it's just not for me. I'm a vegetarian, but I don't have a problem if you want a hamburger.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

The only duration of family life that satisfies the loftiest longings of the human soul is forever.

I'm a serial bigamist.

In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage.

I do find that humor helps in relationships. It certainly helps in my marriage now because I'm a very, very fallible person. And if I wasn't funny I'd be kicked right out the door.

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

But married once, a man is stak'd or pown'd, and cannot graze beyond his own hedge.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

For marriage the best man is the man within oneself. Most women need to develop their own 'masculine' qualities of independence, pride, courage and open sexuality.

If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single.

Good marriages are made in heaven. Or some such place.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.