Get to know your fiance well before getting married. — Moroccan Proverbs
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. — Marilyn Monroe
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
Look at the mother before marrying the daughter. — Turkish Proverbs
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. — Henny Youngman
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. — Helen Rowland
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Benjamin Franklin
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. — Joshua Harris
Courtship is a commitment -
it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart. — Joshua Harris
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine de Scudery
The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time. — A. P. Herbert
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all — Greek Proverbs
[Matrimony] is the grave of love. — Giacomo Casanova
Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. — Gloria Steinem
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac
Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried. — Claudia Cardinale
Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it — Socrates
Before Marriage Image Quotes
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Life Before Marriage Quotes
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. — Maria Monk
One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage. — James Dobson
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day. — Nicholas Sparks
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really. — Sadie Frost
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life. — Diana Trilling
I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids. — Condoleezza Rice
Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon just got themselves a marriage license. I think before she gets married again Pam needs to slow down and think about whether this is really the man she wants to spend three or four months of her life with. — Chelsea Handler
Getting Married Quotes
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. — Rod Stewart
If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable. — Matt Chandler
If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us. — G-Dragon
I don't want to study, I want to get married! — Russian Proverbs
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a law-abiding citizen. Among both black and white Americans so described, the poverty rate is in the single digits. — Walter E. Williams
I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama
It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst. — Zach Braff
If it is right to be legally married, it is right to be legally divorced ... To be deprived of a Divorce is like being shut up in prison because someone attempted to kill you. It is just as honorable to get out of matrimonial trouble legally, as to be freed from any other wrong. — Mary Edwards Walker
Wedding Marriage Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
Going To Marry Quotes
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. — Danish Proverbs
The fairy tales of how life is ‘supposed to be going’ will f*ck up your life. You don’t have to go to university at 18, get a job at 21, buy a house at 30, get married at 35, and have kids at 36. Everyone is completely different, and your path to happiness will be completely different too. — Steven Bartlett
Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation. — Margaret Mitchell
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife. — Shelley Winters
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. — Michael J. Fox
Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy. — Bar Refaeli
I tried to talk my daughter out of going with a hockey player but, he's a good kid. He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her. I said: You want to what? I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time. — Phil Esposito
Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in. — Lisa Loeb
I think that a lot of men, especially once they're married, feel like their girl is just who she is, so don't treat her too special. They shut her off, and having sex before you go to bed is like a sleeping pill. I always say, you're supposed to remember the reason you even asked that girl out. — Andrew Dice Clay
Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves. — Harville Hendrix
Premarital Quotes
Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births. — Joe Lieberman
I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. — Nicholas Sparks
At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or Buddhism's Four Noble Truths but that they hold certain moral positions on bedroom issues such as premarital sex, homosexuality, and abortion. — Stephen Prothero
My grandmother told me: "We all dated lots of different boys because no one was having sex or kissing. It was just going out for sodas and getting to know people. It didn't seem like there was a threat." I think now we have more ideas of people having premarital and unprotected sex. — Zoe Kazan
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex. — Stephen Colbert
Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time. — Robert D. Arnott
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good. — Lora Brody
It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married. — Drew Carey
Technically it's not premarital sex if you don't plan on marrying them. — Daniel Tosh
If premarital sex is a sin, who is the victim? — Sam Harris
Marriage Engagement Quotes
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across. — William Booth
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. — Leo Buscaglia
What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. — Rosemonde Gerard
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. — Kahlil Gibran
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. — Woody Allen
When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early. — Courteney Cox
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. — Unknown
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D. — Thomas Szasz
Wedding Quotes
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa
When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid
When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't for Mary's faith. How many situations are we in now that God won't act without our faith? — Reinhard Bonnke
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts. — Owen Wilson
Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. — Richard Bach
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. — Nicole Krauss
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
Marriage Ceremony Quotes
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men. — Nellie L. McClung
Let there be spaces in your togetherness — Kahlil Gibran
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment. — Cassandra Clare
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. — James Dillet Freeman
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. — Hedy Lamarr
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. — Paul Martin
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. — William Penn
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. — Wendy Shalit
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe
You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor. — William Galston
Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality. — Brad Pitt
Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love. — Pope Benedict XVI
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. — Judith Martin
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. — Stockwell Day
The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of cabbages and kings — of previously unrelated frames of reference or universes of discourse — whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem. — Arthur Koestler
Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care. — Charles Darwin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after. — James Dobson
Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems. — Sayings
In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body. — William Penn
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. — Jerry Seinfeld
I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others. — Princess Margaret
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation. — E. W. Howe
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage. — Rudolf Dreikurs
I believe one of the best preparations for marriage is participating in a small group. If a person has learned to be intimate and honest with a few friends before they get married, they will have less reason to fear intimacy after they are married. — Andy Stanley
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage. — Lolo Jones
I jest, of course; premature ejaculation isn't a laughing matter for anyone, except for your friends when you tell them about it on the phone the next morning. My first marriage ended because the main event was invariably over before my husband got his socks off. — Julie Burchill
Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could]. — Charlize Theron
Next to the love between man and his Creator,
The love of one man and one woman,
Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal,
That has been set before the world.
A perfect marriage is like a pure heart:
Those who have it are fit to see God. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging. — Helen Rowland
I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative. — Alfonso Cuaron
One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you. — Robert Breault
Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership. — Carl Rogers
It is as hard to get a man to stay at home after you've married him as it was to get him to go home before you married him. — Helen Rowland
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage. — Gary Chapman
A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage. — Michael Glawogger
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