Marriage Priorities Quotes

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

What I see in Scripture are the priorities: My wife was beautiful to me, and she loved God, and we got along well. When I look in Scripture for what I want in a wife, here she is, right here.

Don't ever marry a man who loves his work more than he loves you.

Another son came along 18 months later, although we waited four years to have the third, because Mitt was still in school and we had no income except the stock we were chipping away at. We were living on the edge, not entertaining. No, I did not work. Mitt thought it was important for me to stay home with the children, and I was delighted.

I am a good wife, so I think we need to live where my husband is working.

I just do not understand all of these guys that get married and then want to go spend all of their time with their buddies.

What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades.

I want to marry a good person, not his profession. If the person is good, the profession doesn't matter. I hold honesty, simplicity, and genuineness above everything.

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

Marrying for sex is like flying to London for the free peanuts and pretzels. It's not the point of the thing, is it?

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

It's better to be married to someone who hates your politics than someone who hates your momma.

A 'guys' night out' for me is... being with my wife! Since I'm at work a lot, I want to be with her when I'm home.

I can get an audience screaming in Las Vegas and say, 'Barbara, that was a great show,' and she'll say, 'Would you please hurry up? We have dinner reservations at 9:30.'

Mahesh didn't want a working wife; he was clear about that. He wanted time given to him and, later, to the kids.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, "Didn't you want to get married?" Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.