What Is Marriage Quotes

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.

Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

Every marriage is a battle between two families struggling to reproduce themselves.

Take each other for better or worse, but not for granted.

When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.

Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution, and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Marriage, families, all relationships are more a process of learning the dance rather than finding the right dancer

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

You're nothing short of my everything.

Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

A good husband makes a good wife.

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage

Ladies, if you want a happy marriage, then do whatever your husband tells you without questioning his authority.

The ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to glorify God.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.

We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.