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
Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses. — James Dobson
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage. — William Lyon Phelps
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. — H. L. Mencken
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. — Joseph Barth
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. — Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. — Alan King
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
Short Wedlock Quotes
A happy wedlock is a long falling in love. — Theodore Parker
The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." — William Rehnquist
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. — Alexander Pope
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three. — Alexandre Dumas
Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love. — Samuel Johnson
I don't believe in bringing children into the world out of wedlock. — Eartha Kitt
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins. — St. Jerome
A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock. — Charles Simmons
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. — Alexander Pope
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three. — Alexander Dumas
Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day. — Armstrong Williams
Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires. — Stephen Colbert
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
The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair. — David Boaz
Look at all of the out-of-wedlock births that are going on, particularly in our inner cities. I have been speaking at a lot of the non-profit organizations that support organizations that support these women so that they don't have an abortion, so that they have the baby. — Benjamin Carson
I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up. — Ethel Waters
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should not be rewarded. But often it isn't, and common decency requires that we take care of the least of these. — Joe Klein
Before the code, women on screen took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, held down professional positions without apologizing for their self-sufficiency, and in general acted the way many of us think woman acted only after 1969. — Mick LaSalle
Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired! — Mark Driscoll
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
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
The holy heaven yearns to wound the earth, and yearning layeth hold on the earth to join in wedlock; the rain, fallen from the amorous heaven, impregnates the earth, and it bringeth forth for mankind the food of flocks and herds and Demeter's gifts; and from that moist marriage-rite the woods put on their bloom. — Aeschylus
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. — Anna Brownell Jameson
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners. — Samuel Johnson
If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy. — Fredrika Bremer
The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete. — Benjamin Disraeli
For what is wedlock forced but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace. — William Shakespeare
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. — Marquis De Sade
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts. — Aeschylus
Do we honestly believe that hopeless kids growing up under the harsh new rules will turn out to be chaste, studious, responsible adults? On the contrary, by limiting welfare, job training, education and nutritious food, won't we plant the seeds for another bumper crop of out-of-wedlock moms, deadbeat dads and worse? — Richard Stolley
After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together. — Benjamin Franklin
Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together! — Giovanni Ruffini
For any man to match above his rank is but to sell his liberty. — Philip Massinger
Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position. — Plutarch
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination. — Washington Irving
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. — Edwin Percy Whipple
The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. — George Eliot
But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike. — Aeschylus
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. — Alexander Pope
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell
If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy. — William Shakespeare
Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have been found by this time to replace it. One concludes therefore that people do not marry to cohabit; they cohabit to marry. They do not seek freedom to rut so much as they seek the rut of wedlock. — Virgilia Peterson
Wedlock's like wine - not properly judged of till the second glass. — Ernest Jarrold
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. — Lord Byron
In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense. — Ruckett
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. — Heraclitus
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