Life Partnership Quotes

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig.

I have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

"Marriage" is an internationally recognized word that says we are committed as a couple and are responsible for each other and any children that we have.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Marriage is rather a silly habit.

Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage.

Men marry what they need. I marry you.

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

I think marriage, in its loosest sense, is people committing to each other saying I love you and I like being with you and that is wonderful. I don't see the need to formalize it unless you plan to have children and you want the fair distribution of assets.

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment.

Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.