Marriage Quotes - Page 67

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?

A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

I married him for better or worse. I didn't marry him for lunch.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual fitness, mutual esteem, as for woman to make herself independent of it as a mere means of subsistence?

I think we explored the further reaches of for better or for worse than some other married couples.

Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.

No matter how free divorce, how frequently marriages break up, in most societies there is the assumption of permanent mating, of the idea that the marriage should last as long as both live. . . . No known society has ever invented a form of marriage strong enough to stick that did not contain the 'till death us do part' assumption.

I've been married three times - and each time I married the right person.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

I have never been able to sleep with anyone. I require a full-size bed so that I can lie in the middle of it and extend my arms spreadeagle on both sides without being obstructed.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

A good marriage is worth fighting for.

This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted.

How many more gay people must God create until we realize that he wants them here?

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.