Matrimonial Bond Quotes

Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

Marriage is reckon’d a lay contract in Carolina.

The wife owes service and labor to her husband as much and as absolutely as the slave does to his master.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

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

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

It used to be when we said, ''til death do us part,' death parted us pretty soon. That's why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.

Married life is a simpler life. Who I spend my time with is established in advance.

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

I was married awfully young and I felt trapped. My wife had been divorced and all the time we were married we were out of the Church. It wasn't until we were divorced that we became good Catholics again.

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together.

Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood.

And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl

If you get married, you become vulnerable.

I'll be honest. After I got married, I definitely had a shift in emotional devotion.