Top 1200 Years Of Marriage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

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.

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

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister?

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

Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.

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?

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

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

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected.

A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.

One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier marriage. We hear that all the time; there have been billions of dollars now, between the Bush administration and the Obama administration, which has continued the marriage education program, on trying to get more people to get married.

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much.

You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal; it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I had my children after eight years of marriage. It was a dream come true. I still pinch myself.

It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

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

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

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