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
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell
Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. — Oscar Wilde
Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other. — Frank Sinatra
One who marries for love alone will have bad days but good nights. — African Proverbs
Short Married Love Quotes
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire
The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love — Joe Louis
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A happy man marries the girl he loves; a happier man loves the girl he married. — African Proverbs
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. — Jackie Kennedy
A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world. — Robert Breault
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
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 thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. — William Shakespeare
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. — Stephen Leacock
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Love is so much better when you're not married. — Maria Callas
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love. — Hafez
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. — James Dobson
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Just Married Love Quotes
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception. — Mike Birbiglia
Even though i have no other choice but to marry you... I Just want to make it clear that i love and will always love Matt Hardy — Amy Dumas
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes--
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible — Gregory Corso
Everyone has the right to be happy and be treated equally and I think not allowing gay marriage just kind of puts us back. I believe you're in love with who you're in love with, and you should be able to marry them. No one should tell someone else how to think or how to feel. — Kim Kardashian
I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha! — Dolly Parton
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
When I want to end a relationship I just say, 'You know, I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children.' Sometimes they leave skid marks. — Rita Rudner
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself. — Dan Marino
Just open your heart man and accept that people are gay. Thousands, probably millions of people are gay. And until we find a cure - we will practice unconditional love and tolerance towards these people. And we will let them get married because they're easier to track that way. — Arj Barker
One day it just hit me. This is it. You are not in love. So either stay in it because you have a child or be brave and find the man of your dreams and marry him for real. — Brandy Norwood
Getting Married Love Quotes
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain
I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. — Rob Portman
When you end up happily married, even the failed relationships have worked beautifully to get you there. — Julia Roberts
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
I had fallen in love with a young man... and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute bacterial endocarditis... Two years later with the advent of penicillin, he would have been saved. It reinforced in my mind the importance of scientific discovery... — Gertrude B. Elion
When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. — Joseph Campbell
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. — Jean Kerr
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot. — Minnie Pearl
I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone. — Enrique Iglesias
I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children. — Hugh Hefner
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton
Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that. — Deepa Mehta
When I married Prince Rainier, I married the man and not what he represented or what he was. I fell in love with him without giving a thought to anything else. — Grace Kelly
He’s very close to his family His parents have been married 40 years. He’s got a pure heart. That’s all that matters—he’s got the purest heart. I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I’m sharing my life with. I have a good man. — Gisele Bundchen
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him. — Wallace Stegner
I absolutely love you, Briony, and I am on my knees. So we're getting married - right? But say it fast before we get shot." Only Jack would ask - if you could call it asking - in the middle of a battlefield, with a man lying dead at his feet. — Christine Feehan
If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance. — Jodi Picoult
Married Life Quotes
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. — Leila Khaled
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. — Yiddish Proverbs
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal. — Salvador Minuchin
The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time. — Marabel Morgan
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen. — Teresa of Avila
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
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier
Wedding Love Quotes
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 strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
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 you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart — Leo Buscaglia
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. — Nhat Hanh
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. — Mother Teresa
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us. — Bernard of Clairvaux
Married Couple Quotes
Nikah is a contract that transfers responsibilities. Therefore know the man you're thinking of marrying, and be sure that he is able to take care of you, more than your dad did. Islam empowers women with honor and dignity. Don't settle for anything less. — Nouman Ali Khan
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. — Unknown Author
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. — Earl Wilson
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
I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks. — Gavin MacLeod
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. — Ian Mckellen
Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another. — Ruth Graham
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. — Billie Holiday
The goal of every married couple, indeed, every Christian home, should be to make Christ the Head, the Counselor and the Guide. — Paul Sadler
Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind. — Dave Willis
Marriage Life Quotes
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. — Edgar Allan Poe
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy! — Paul Washer
Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature. — Howard Thurman
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved. — Sigmund Freud
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
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
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible. — Gabrielle Roth
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him. — Oscar Wilde
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. — Elinor Glyn
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
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
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
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
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. — Johnny Carson
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. — Oscar Wilde
I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after all. It is far more important to BE the right kind of person than it is to marry the right person. — Zig Ziglar
Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place. — Vida Goldstein
Don’t marry without love, but don’t love without reason. — American Proverbs
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. — Lord Byron
Whether you're gay, straight, you can't tell anybody who to love and who to marry. It's unconstitutional and it's morally wrong. — Andrew Dice Clay
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
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
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. — Martha Gellhorn
No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail. — Sister Souljah
What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live! — Arthur Rubinstein
Does he treat you with respect at all times? That's the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you've found a good man. — Colleen Hoover
Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. — Albert Einstein
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision. — David Boies
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married. — Billie Burke
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. — Mary Astell
What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. Don't go to bed mad. Life is too short. Keep it simple. — Si Robertson
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
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 a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. — Samuel Pepys
Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? — Robin Jones Gunn
Teenagers don't know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn't love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him. That's love. — Norm Crosby
Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. — Morton Hunt
A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness. — Kenneth Faried
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. — Jefferson Machamer
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