What Is Marriage Quotes

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.

The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

My Christian faith teaches me marriage is between man and a woman. I'm not evolving with the polls. I'm not changing like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

We all agree that marriage is a fundamental right. And in our country, and in our society, there are no second-class citizens.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

I don't think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.

Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

A true collaboration is trickier than a marriage because you can't hide.

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.

Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.

I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea.

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

The best by far is to marry in one's own rank.

When a match has equal partners then I fear not.