Top 1200 Marriage Vows Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

It's none of my business what somebody's [orientation is]. Now when somebody makes it my business, like on gay marriage, I'm going to stand up and say I don't support gay marriage. I support marriage between men and women.

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

Granted, there's been mistakes made immaturely, but a marriage is a marriage.

The conservative argument for marriage includes a recognition of the traditional value of marriage as a stabilizing force in society.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

I have no idea if I will go for an arranged marriage or love marriage.

I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

Those who enter into marriage, must be fully prepared to establish their marriage, as the first priority in their lives.

Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

It works much like a marriage, an old marriage. You've got to work on it.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

One of the differences between marriage and prostitution is that in marriage you only have to make a deal with one man.

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue.

I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.

People told me it was a mistake to marry so young but you can't go into a marriage thinking that because the divorce statistics are so high your marriage won't last. You have to work at it day by day. Though certainly marriage isn't a final, heavy commitment, like signing your life away. It's the type of thing you can always get out of.

It's terrible to be trapped in a bad marriage. It would be nice if your marriage was forever, but why grudge it for what it was not?

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

The secret to a happy marriage is a sense of humor, because marriage throws you curveballs. It is not easy.

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people... would accept marriage on it's thirteenth-century terms. Marriage survives, in other words, precisely because it evolves. (Though I suppose this would not be a very persuasive argument to those who probably also don't believe in evolution).

It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

I was one of the first senators to support marriage equality, and led the effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

We are wide open and vulnerable and in all likelihood an activist judge will strike down our Defense of Marriage Act, our state law against gay marriage, this year. And in all likelihood, we will have gay marriage in 2004 in Minnesota , if we don't get this amendment on the ballot for November.

We have a very strong marriage. We've been together for going on 32 years. I think we have the strongest marriage I know.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart.

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has to meditate; meditation is a byproduct. Without marriage, who will bother to meditate? For what? You will be already blissful!

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

Marriage is amazing, and I wish every person on this planet to have a blissful marriage.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I'd like to have a successful marriage, not for the sake of labelling or branding, but because I believe in the institution of marriage.

Marriage is not easy, especially when it's a very public marriage. I know firsthand.