Marriage Quotes - Page 52

A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

I maintain that it should cost as much to get married as to get divorced. Make it look like marriage is worth as much as divorce, even if it ain't.

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck

I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.