Marriage Quotes
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Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.
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The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
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A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
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Could mere loving be a life's work? Could it be a career like marriage or nursing the sick or going on the stage? Could it be adventure?
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An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one of the better reasons is the impending arrival of a little stranger. ... any lady in this interesting condition should have the grace to refuse. We know that symbols of fertility are appropriate to the marriage ceremony, but they needn't be quite so obviously borne in on the congregation.
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There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don’t agree; I’m wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society. I think it’s a very dangerous idea. Humans are humans and they are worthy of respect…
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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
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A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
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A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
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I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
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There is usually less romance in marriage than in any other relationship of life. But the general idea concerning marriage is that it is all or nearly all romance.
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For marriage is the worst misfortune!
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That was what marriage was: the ultimate knowledge of each other, with no need to preen or to pretend. Even its irritations came from closeness.
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When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.
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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
