Marriage Quotes - Page 11

A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

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

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.

To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.

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

You're nothing short of my everything.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

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.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

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.

To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart - about a finger's breadth - for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.

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

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.