Lasting Union Quotes

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one.

Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

I've been married over 50 years of my life.

When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!

Marriage is more permanent than love. Love may be eternal, but it is not permanent. It may continue forever and forever, but there is no inner necessity for it to continue. It is like a flower: bloomed in the morning, by the evening gone. It is not like the rock. Marriage is more permanent; you can rely on it. In old age it will be helpful.

I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.

When I get married it will be for keeps.

I firmly believe marriage should happen as a by-product of love.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights, older than our political parties, older than our school system. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred. It is an association that promotes a way of life, an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in our prior decisions.

I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

My parents have been together since 1963, so that's something.

If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

It doesn't matter when you get married as long as it is the right person.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?