Marriage Quotes

I'm strictly a 'look at the menu but don't order anything' guy when it comes to attractive women who aren't my wife.

~ C.t. Phipps

I’ve always thought that Binding was a bit like a war − both sides think they’re right, and neither wants to back down…the only difference is that you’re sleeping with the enemy.”-Evan

~ Suzanne Wright

She was still not at ease with the idea that she was now important enough to have people as accessories. Nor was she comfortable with the idea of these people as gatekeepers with access to the details of their personal lives. Whenever she felt herself shrinking under the indifferent glare of the staff that surrounded her, as she did in this instance, she straightened her back and lifted her chin in the way that Chiedza, her trusted advisor-friend, had instructed her to do.

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

If you want to know, it was the capitalists who invented marriage in order to protect the laws of inheritance.

~ James Plunkett

Learn to set the pace for your relationship as a couple...not how the world thinks but how God designed it to be.

~ Kemi Sogunle

You know, Tsitsi, you are so quick to point out that you are not a prostitute. I just want to laugh because you are just falling into rank. You all should spare us your ‘morality’ that lauds ‘women’ over the supposedly lesser ‘whores’ and ‘girls’. That’s how society sees us. That’s how you see us. You want it to be that we are like coal, only to be loved in the dark and tossed like ashes come morning.

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

Why couldn't Mr. Darcy, in the first half hour of the movie, simply walk up to Elizabeth and say, Hey, I like you. Do you want to go out on a date? And, by the way, I'm filthy rich. I'll tell you why. Because that would defeat the purpose of a chick flick, which is to entertain women and torture men.

~ David E. Clarke

He opened his heart to me. He wasn't afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing, in that time, for a man to do that. That's the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself, entirely, even the weak parts.

~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda

You can’t fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,’ says the ng’anga.

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.

~ Will Advise

The greatest sacred sayings, I love you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is love. Love is God. God is divine.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have no idea,' he said, and that's another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: be wary of a man who says, 'I have no idea,' when asked why his wife doesn't like something he's done, which of course is just another way of saying be wary of men in general.

~ Brock Clarke

Love keeps heart warm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement

~ Petina Gappah

Temptation goes both ways. Sometimes, you can be tempted to live a half life because it pleases someone else. Don't ever live in such a way that your heart splits into two souls. You might find yourself sinning for the rest of your life because you don't want to really be in that situation, but you don't want to hurt the kids. That is a hell that your children will pick up on soon enough. Staying for the kids is possible, but it takes two people to agree that choice is their lifestyle, not one. Otherwise, you hold another person captive because of your fear of stating the obvious-- you are not in love with them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Married and buried, wed and dead.

~ Rachel Caine

To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.

~ Criss Jami

Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that selective evilness is okay is mental illness.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Tying the know means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Modern married women do not fare better in life than their single counterparts. Married women in America do not live longer than single women; married women do not accumulate as much wealth as single women (you take a 7 percent pay cut, on average, just for getting hitched); married women do not thrive in their careers to the extent single women do; married women are significantly less healthy than single women; married women are more likely to suffer from depression than single women; and married women are more likely to die a violent death than single women—usually at the hands of a husband, which raises the grim reality that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous person in the average woman’s life is her own man.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is sacred intimacy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.

~ Augusten Burroughs

Love is heartbeat of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can fall in love, then you can love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every spirit seeks its sacred soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love melts my heart in the sacredness of its pureness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love exists at all times.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The light of love is life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

~ Kent Haruf

In the light, our hearts only knows love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is pure and divine.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is my belief that marriage is made holy by two souls in communion, not by the order of the law.

~ Lynn Cullen

In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones

~ Esther Perel

Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty five years was an important occasion alright, but wearing a tie she bought with such strong emotional value attached to it was a form of cowardice, a subconscious reluctance to let go.

~ Vann Chow

If you have to make a daily choice to be in a relationship then you are married to the past, not the person.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Capture the moment. It is your only sacred-memory.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita