Marriage Quotes

The more interest you show in your spouse, the more interest your spouse will show in you.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

In this changing world around us we can't help but change. Change is what makes our relationships so interesting! without it there wouldn't be anything new happening in our lives. Your job as an equal in your relationship is to look for change in your spouse and embrace it. When you show a devoted interest in every talent, hobby, desire, passion or goal that your spouse tosses on the table, you are telling your spouse that he/she is important to you. The favor will be returned tenfold. Life will become more interesting!

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Many tradesmen export their best commodities-the Christian should not. He should have all his conversation everywhere of the best savour, but let him have a care to put forth the sweetest fruit of spiritual life and testimony in his own family.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Forget about trying to fix your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Wanting to give her the best fit I could, I sand the knowledge I had learned from Snow Flower. Everyone needs clothing-no matter how cool it is in summer or how warm it is in winter-so make clothes for others without being asked. Even if the table is plentiful, let your in-laws eat first. Work hard and remember three things: Be god to your in-laws and always show respect, be good to your husband and always weave for him, be good to your children and always be a model of decorum to them. If you do these things, your new family will treat you kindly. In that fine home, be calm of heart.

~ Lisa See

A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.

~ Harold Holzer

Marriage, she felt, was a fine arrangement generally, except that one never got it generally. One got it very, very specifically.

~ Lorrie Moore

Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged peaks and hidden crevasses that send the both of you scrabbling into darkness. Then there are dull, parched stretches that you feel will never end, and much of the journey is in fraught silence, and sometimes you can't see the other person at all, sometimes they drift off very far away from you, quite out of sight, and the journey is hard. It is just very, very, very hard.

~ David Nicholls

She says affection is all very well being imagined, like a romantic fancy, but marriage should be based on practical purposes in order to last longer.

~ Aya Ling

It was a dark story.

~ Joseph Conrad

What's the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.

~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.

~ David Nicholls

No man wants to marry, Finnula. There are just some women they can’t have any other way, and so it is a sacrifice willingly made in order to attain a particularly choice—

~ Meg Cabot

I will not give up on love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

On this day, I give you my heart. I promise to be your lover, companion, and friend. Your greatest advocate and your toughest adversary, your comrade in adventure and your accomplice in mischief, and your ally in all things. I promise to communicate fully and fearlessly, and pledge my love, devotion, faith, and honor as i join my life to yours.

~ April White

It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.

~ Charles Dickens

Intoxicating affections mimic marriage. They don’t last!

~ Deborrah K. Ogans

I think mixed women from interracial marriages are beautiful, and for many reasons, all of them good.

~ Daniel Marques

There's more at stake from the ripples we make than simply passing through.

~ John Tracy Wilson

Love is blind. You don't have to be.

~ Michael Gabriel

But when thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, and religion, united with sweetness of temper, modest deportment, and a love of domestic life; such is the woman who will divide the sorrows and double the joys of thy life. Take her to thyself; she is worthy to be thy nearest friend, thy companion, the wife of thy bosom.

~ Noah Webster

He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, since accomplices are potential enemies: she was some one with whom, by some unheard-of miracle, joys above the joys of friendship were to be tasted, but who, even through these fleeting ecstasies, remained simply and securely his friend.

~ Edith Wharton

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

~ Anna Quindlen

I’m afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage—ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth . . .Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come—as they inevitably do.

~ Billy Graham

Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Meeting a girl, falling in love, marrying her, moving to Connecticut, buying a fucking house, starting a life with her and thinking you really knew anything about her--the last part was a complete fiction, which made all the rest a joke.

~ Richard Ford

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

~ Billy Graham

While God’s will is that every marriage will endure, man’s sin has poisoned many relationships.

~ Billy Graham

Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

~ Billy Graham

A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.

~ Billy Graham

It’s amazing how we can hurt others, especially those close to us . . .subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which wives belittle husbands and vice versa.

~ Billy Graham

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

~ Billy Graham

Marriage is not a reform school . . .Instead of you reforming [your spouse], [he or she] will instead influence you.

~ Billy Graham

As husband and wife, to have a happy life together, you must have confidence and respect, and you must have substantial agreement in your faith.

~ Billy Graham

The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect.

~ Billy Graham

Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn’t based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant . . .many people believe divorce is the answer.

~ Billy Graham

[God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

~ Billy Graham

[Ruth’s] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

~ Billy Graham

Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.

~ Billy Graham

Many people today have discarded the Bible’s clear teaching on sexual relations outside of marriage, simply because they are absorbed only in their own pleasures and desires.

~ Billy Graham