Marriage Quotes

Marriage is a cheerful commitment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly.

~ Vann Chow

The strength of a woman is the love she carries in her heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is meant to keep people together not just when things are good, but particularly when they are not. That's why we take marriage vows - not wishes

~ Ngina Otiende

Divorce is not always a doorway to happiness. The same can be said about marriage.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house tonight or never.

~ Jane Austen

Call it dating if you like, but I didn’t want her to be under the impression that it was anything serious. Not at that point in any case, it was more to be an experiment in human social relationships, one which might or might not lead to sex and or marriage.

~ Andrew James Pritchard

Marriage is a mutual friendship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred time will define the sacred event.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God is more interested in restoring our hearts to Him, than giving us a happy marriage.

~ Ngina Otiende

In marriage, the man and woman must complement each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Marriage is a sacred-commitment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Husband and wife, must complement each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want a happy Christ-centered marriage, you must be centered in Christ!

~ Ngina Otiende

It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse

~ Ngina Otiende

Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!

~ Ngina Otiende

Go for what you want.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We must keep together, we belong to each other.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a sacred love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He looked up at her. Age and worry had taken their toll on her frail body, but she was kind and beautiful. And for a moment, memories and thoughts swam to the surface, the world coming into utter clarity. And all of them revolved around Amanda, his wife of fifty years.

~ Crissy Moss

Love awakens the divine-spirit of soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to love than hate.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Most of a husband’s life is spent in doing research on his wife.

~ Pawan Mishra

...marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it

~ Nicholas Sparks

Cultural and religious traditions that forbid cross-cultural unions prevent peace on earth. Instead of rejoicing that our sons and daughters are heart-driven and love other humans outside of their familiar religious, social or cultural domains, we punish and insult them. This is wrong. Honor killings are not honorable by God. They are driven by ignorance and ego and nothing more. The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you think God will punish you or your child for allowing them to marry outside of your tribe or faith, then you do not know God. Love is his religion and the light of love sees no walls. Anybody who unconditionally loves another human being for the goodness of their heart and nothing more is already on the right side of God.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is described by some as a moment when the world stops moving...it did just that for me. I knew before she said one word or made a single movement, that our lives would begin to dissolve into each other...we would never part again. This was not love at first sight, but rather second. I had fallen in love at eleven; now I was twenty and now all things were possible.

~ Graham Kerr

Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person.

~ Archie Lee

We were pressed against each other, a husband and wife bound together not by marriage, but by the harmony of our hearts. Death could not undo us, I'd learned. My hamsar was with me still. He would watch over us, my beloved husband, as we made our way into tomorrow.

~ Nadia Hashimi

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Are you planning to get married?' She finally asked. 'Like to someone in particular?' He shrugged. 'Aren't most marriages to someone in particular?

~ Cassandra Gannon

To him, she was one of the few girls who was nice to him, the stodgy son of a poor alcoholic shoemaker with such little status that he seemed unlikely to even get one wife, let alone the three or more that designated a man of standing.

~ Colleen Chen

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nim looked aghast. “Of course not. Do you think my future wife would be a servant? No—it’s Number Seven of the wives. Her name is Begonia.”“Oh, no, Nim,” Vesper said. “You can’t fall for one of the wives! She’s married. And to the king, no less. That’s illegal. Maybe it shouldn’t be, but you’ll still probably be arrested if anyone finds out—or worse.”“I knew you’d say that,” Nim said, turning away. “You’re such a prude, Vesper. Love is above things like rules. And the king has so many wives and mistresses—he doesn’t even remember all of them.

~ Colleen Chen

To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to serve him. Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to give him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a one-woman man.

~ Adeline Yen Mah

Irish people marry late, as a rule. We have that potato-famine DNA from the old country, that mentality where you don't give birth to anything until you have the potatoes all stored up to feed it. My ancestors were all shepherds who got married in their thirties and then stayed together for life, who had long and happy marriages, no doubt because they were already deaf. My grandparents courted for nine years before they married in 1933.

~ Rob Sheffield

Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in the matters of heart, parents in this part of the world hadn’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.

~ Pawan Mishra

The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

~ Pawan Mishra

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

I was wrong.Now that I think about it, if I had said those words to a now-ex back in my twenties, I would probably be married right now.

~ Larry Gent