Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.
"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.
Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and again. That's why it's a sacrament; You give up your personal simplicity to participate in a relationship. And when you're giving, you're not giving to the other person; you're giving to the relationship.
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.
I just can't. I'm married. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it.
The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.
[Matrimony] is the grave of love.
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.
Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.
I've just vowed my love for you. Have you nothing to say in return?" Duncan asked. "Thank you, husband.
A young man married is a man that's marred.
Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor.
No one goes into a marriage - when I went into my marriage many years ago, I thought I'd end my life with Randy [White]. And the divorce is not anything that I ever wanted to happen.
I didn't get married to get divorced.
Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
I'm married - I've caught my limit.
No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
Julia, I promise to love you, to cherish you, in sickness and in health. No matter what, I will be there for you and our family. I promise not to make the social media another member of our family.
