138 Marriage Proposal Quotes

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Famous Marriage Proposal Quotes

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. - Vince Gill

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman. — Vince Gill

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. - Groucho Marx

Will you marry me? Do you have any money? Answer the second question first. — Groucho Marx

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart. — Joshua Harris

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

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed. — Carrie Underwood

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!' — Emo Philips

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. — John Hagee

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Nora Ephron

'My bride is here,' Rochester said , again drawing me to him, 'because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?' — Charlotte Bronte

For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me. — Fred Ebb

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. — G. K. Chesterton

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

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. - Joe Murray

Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps. — Joe Murray

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude — Rainer Maria Rilke

Marriage Engagement Quotes

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

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

Marriage proposal quote Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

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

Marriage proposal quote We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about wea
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.

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

Propose Day Quotes

I don’t think a regular person appreciates how insane it is that computers work. I propose we stare at each other mind-blown for about 1 hour per day, in small groups in circles around a chip on a pedestal, appreciating that we can coerce physics to process information like that. — Andrej Karpathy

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future. — Julius Sterling Morton

The most important things are the hardest to say — Stephen King

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I? — Dale Carnegie

I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created. — Romano Prodi

The owners of a dog which swallowed a diamond worth £12000 had to wait three days until it re-emerged. With a bit of planning it could have been a nice way to propose. — Frankie Boyle

If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success. — Arthur Saxon

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools. — Nick Rahall

What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least. — Anne Waldman

Under my contract with the American voter, we are proposing a series of ethics reforms on day one to end government corruption. They include a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress. — Donald Trump

Will You Marry Me Quotes

I promise to love you forever - every single day of forever. — Stephenie Meyer

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes." Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart. — Shana Abe

I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then. — William Goldman

Marry me," he said. "Marry me, Tess. Marry me and be Tessa Herondale. Or be Tessa Gray, or be whatever you wish to call yourself, but marry me and stay with me and never leave me, for I cannot bear another day of my life to go by that does not have you in it. — Cassandra Clare

On the whole, I haven't found men unduly loath to say, 'I love you.' The real trick is to get them to say, 'Will you marry me? — Ilka Chase

David Duchovny asked me while I was picking out shoes in the closet. It wasn't a special occasion. He just asked, 'Will you marry me?' — Tea Leoni

When I meet a beautiful girl, the first thing I say is 'will you marry me?'. The second thing I say is, 'how do you do?' — Tommy Manville

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months? — Oscar Wilde

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no. — William Shakespeare

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

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham

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

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. - William Wordsworth

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. — William Wordsworth

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. - Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey

Going To Marry 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 want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. — Katharine Hepburn

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

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. — Danish Proverbs

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

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

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

Marry Me Quotes

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year. — Bette Davis

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me." — Jon Bon Jovi

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein

I'm getting married in the morning! / Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime. / Pull out the stopper! Let's have a whopper! / But get me to the church on time!. — Alan Jay Lerner

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy. — Nas

If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too. — Shamcey Supsup

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

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

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. — Arthur Rubinstein

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to me. — Kellyanne Conway

Wedding Love Quotes

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I am in the battlefield, I love it more than my wedding night with the most beautiful of women — Khalid ibn al-Walid

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson

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

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite. — William Shakespeare

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. — Jay Leno

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. — Franz Schubert

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. — Gwendolyn Brooks

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker

I Want To Marry Quotes

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. — Rita Rudner

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 want to marry the kind of girl that walks out of an abortion clinic with a lollipop. — Anthony Jeselnik

I don't want to study, I want to get married! — Russian Proverbs

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love. — Carrie Underwood

If I get married, I want to be very married. — Audrey Hepburn

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. — Henny Youngman

If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. — Sam Kinison

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out. — Anne Sexton

If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I can’t imagine any better thing to do than to get married. Being married forces you to face some character issues you’d never have to face otherwise. — Gary L. Thomas

Wedding Quotes

While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa

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

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

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid. — George Carlin

It will heal before your wedding day. — Russian Proverbs

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself? — Walt Whitman

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children. — Gad Saad

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it. — Billy Graham

Marriage Speech Quotes

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all. — Henny Youngman

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. — Graeme Simsion

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. — Kahlil Gibran

Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God. — Russell M. Nelson

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery. — George Jean Nathan

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day. — Joe Biden

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More Marriage Proposal Quotes

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen

I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love. — Anne Truitt

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. — Teri Garr

Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding. — Jon Stewart

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit. — Madeleine Stowe

I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money. — Ruth Rendell

Christianity is God's marriage proposal to the soul. — Peter Kreeft

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying. — Barack Obama

I've never had knickers or marriage proposals. Most of my fans are blokes serving life in jail, troubled kids, and a lot of gay guys. I never get the mid-20s, beautiful women fanbase. — Kelvin Fletcher

If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment. — Werner Herzog

I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much. — Roger Lloyd-Pack

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage. — John Tesh

You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex. — Amy Dickinson

On both 'The Bachelor' and 'The Bachelorette,' it seems like proposing marriage is equivalent to saying, 'Let's date.' Everyone knows those aren't the same things. — Patti Stanger

In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - wont you believe me? — Jane Goldman

Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family? — Ira Reiss

We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda. — Barack Obama

I think it's very important that we protect marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. I proposed a constitutional amendment. The reason I did so was because I was worried that activist judges are actually defining the definition of marriage. And the surest way to protect marriage between a man and woman is to amend the Constitution. — George W. Bush

A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did. — E. W. Howe

This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. “I suppose so,” I said, blushing again. “And, as you see, I’m doing it properly, on my knees.” “This would, however, be a partnership of equals you’re offering, I imagine?” “Undoubtedly.” (448-49) — Juliet Marillier

Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs. — Kristin Cashore

Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes. — Melina Marchetta

But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape. — Nancy Werlin

I've had marriage proposals, invitations to military balls and even a few prom offers from 18-year-old boys. — Hope Solo

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