Quotes about marriage

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been.

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

There's something about marriage that is not as intensely romantic or interesting as a couple's first meeting.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Dating isn't a natural need it is a social want.

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday valentine’s day wouldn’t be so 'special.

Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.

Mr Hawkins said nothing the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course always charting new course for her loved ones.

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this not people who belittle it or question the value of it.

A fast car can make women 'like' a man and a man 'like' women … fast.

I didn’t feel like I was stealing someone’s husband I felt like they were already apart.

Trust is the bedrock of intimacy it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart.

Marriage is a partnership not a sole proprietorship.

When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going men are more interested in where the woman has been.

It takes two to tango” one dictates the steps and the other executes them effectively. That is how a great show is made.

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon 'growing apart'.

Thus the successful bid to gain access to marriage effectively strengthens marital status as a state-sanctioned condition for the exercise of certain kinds of rights and entitlements it strengthens the hand of the state in the regulation of human sexual behavior and it emboldens the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate forms of partnership and kinship.

Love without truth is sentimentality it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.

A story that is more interesting than any novel written by Nicolas Spark a relationship that has more emotions than any movie made by Karan Johar and a drama that is more exciting than any TV show...this what we have in our 15 years of marriage and 19 years of togetherness (?)...

Courtship is driven by hormones marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

Commonsense will never come from following your heart wisdom is only stored in the mind.

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed and he was happy without her.

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects some women treat objects as men.

Whatever the mind can conceive it can achieve I can CREATE whatever I can IMAGINE!

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come … sometimes but (2) pay the bills … at all times.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

I feel angry but not homocidal this may be unlooked-for progress.

The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair it is an ordeal. (92)

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves their carcases collide with one another and creak.

Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries file them for future reference.

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time.

A good marriage is not a gift it is an achievement.

Marriage union goes beyond the actual ceremony. It goes beyond intimacy and remains a solid foundation for happiness if only partners remain optimally loyal to the mission.

The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana

We're part of a mixed marriage -- he's male I'm female.

Parent may hinder their children's marriage but children cannot interfere with the insane acts of their parents in their second childhood.

It's not the end if you're too shy to say 'I love you.' It's only the beginning because you're first meant to show it anyway.

I've learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

You have to recognize your inability to love before you can love the way God loves. His version of love is unfamiliar to the natural world It is sacrificial and selfless and the most beautiful love you could experience.

Many tradesmen export their best commodities-the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.

Gardens don’t grow by themselves they need to be tended and cultivated and weeded. The same is true of a marriage.

The greatest sacred sayings I love you.

You don’t want emotional walls to separate you from your spouse you need walls of safety to surround your relationship.

Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely you do know someone entirely.

None of us marry perfection we marry potential.

I’m beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don’t want to those you want to marry and can’t.

Never look to other couples to measure your worth look to God to fulfill your call.

Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking GodBeheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who

A tattoo is permanent with a marriage you can more easily change your mind.

Problem does not lie in being a husband the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy).

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship without friendship it's just lust.

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

I am happy. I have a wonderful marriage. I was in a not-great second marriage for 20 years, then I fell in love with Steve, my first husband, again, and we remarried. I wore the dress from our first wedding in 1982 - it was tight, but I could get into it.

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

I believe all people, regardless of sexual orientation, should be guaranteed the full rights to the legal benefits and responsibilities of marriage under the Constitution.

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.

Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where gay marriage is legal to enjoy the same economic advantages that federal laws now grant to straight couples? Or is it a 'conservative' ruling, limiting the federal government's ability to override state power?

Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagreement about this: If the United States Supreme Court holds that states must sanction same-sex marriage, then Florida's contrary laws must fall.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

Marriage is a wonderful invention but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.

The bond of love the bond of peace.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

On marriage: You sort of stumble along and reconnect and lose each other and reconnect again.

Be supportive to you partner. Be there for them.Listen to them and show you care. Humans fall in love with someone who listens and care, over someone who is beautiful and rich and that's how you lose your lover to others. It is because those people show interest ,they listen and care what you partner is saying or what she or he is going through. Beauty and money will get you relationship , but not love. Listening, caring and being there will get you Love.

Beauty and Money will get you a relationship , but not love. Listening, caring and being there will get you Love.

I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I've got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don't know how to account for it, but it is so.""It may be Nature's provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.