Marriage Quotes

Until YOU get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to go through the same thing. When you get the courage to stop making excuses for them, and stop excusing their behavior, then you’ll be able to break free from that unhealthy situation. You’ve got to be willing to face YOUR truth in order to move on and be at peace. You matter!

~ Stephanie Lahart

When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Commonsense will never come from following your heart, wisdom is only stored in the mind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A woman's weapon is her tongue.

~ Anthony Trollope

He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.

~ Aimee Bender

Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.

~ Jim George

A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.

~ Laurie Kahn

Honor, obey? Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. This is what you call being a good wife?I stopped. I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

~ A.c. Gaughen

The word “marriage” lingered in Guy’s ears, too. It was a solemn word to him. It had the primordial solemnity of holy, love, sin. It was Miriam’s round terra cotta-coloured mouth saying, “Why should I put myself out for you?” and it was Anne’s eyes as she pushed her hair back and looked up at him on the lawn of her house where she planted crocuses. It was Miriam turning from the tall thin window in the room in Chicago, lifting her freckled, shield-shaped face directly up to his as she always did before she told a lie, and Steve’s long dark head, insolently smiling.

~ Patricia Highsmith

I believe marriage was designed to do what only marriage can do - point us to Jesus by modeling his love for us. This, though, isn’t easy or even preferable. This means the sin in us, the pride and selfishness and anger and stubbornness and greed and lust in us, will be revealed through our partner. A spouse can help us grow in a way that no one else in this world can.

~ Cole Ryan

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

~ Jim George

This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there will come a time when you will be tempted to run away. Would that be right? Would that be fair? As every matriarch discovers, entire seasons will pass without reward. As your mate's peculiarities add up, what do you do? Wait!pg 45

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

marriage is an arrangement between like-minded parties. It’s a partnership, not a love affair. I never lied to you or kept anything of importance from you.”She looked at him then, almost stunned, as if she didn’t recognize him. He didn’t like it. Not at all.

~ Mira Lyn Kelly

Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.

~ T.f. Hodge

I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Courtship is driven by hormones, marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice.

~ Ron Brackin

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

~ Gary L. Thomas

Dorrie gave Larry's hand an excited, distracted squeeze that said: almost home. They were about to be matter-of-factly claimed by familiar streets and houses and the life they'd chosen or which had chosen them.

~ Carol Shields

Your commitment to follow God's plan makes a difference in the atmosphere in your home and improves the climate of your marriage.

~ Elizabeth George

You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget.

~ Elizabeth George

What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing. The bargain was already in force. Days and years and feelings much the same, except that the children would grow up, and there might be one or two more of them and they too would grow up, and she and Brendan would grow older and then old.It was not until now, not until this moment, that she had seen so clearly that she was counting on something happening, something which would change her life. She had accepted her marriage as one big change, but not as the last one. So, nothing now but what she or anybody else could sensibly foresee. That was to be her happiness, that was what she had bargained for, nothing secret, or strange.Pay attention to this, she thought. She had a dramatic notion of getting down on her knees. This is serious...It was a long time ago that this happened. In North Vancouver, when they lived in the Post and Beam house. When she was twenty-four years old and new to bargaining.

~ Alice Munro

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed, and he was happy without her.

~ Virginia Woolf

I had this dream about you last night. We were still married. I was giving you a haircut, like I always did, being careful to trim around the scar on the back of your head. I’m sorry I sometimes forgot it and left you with a bald spot. And, I’m sorry we didn’t work out. But you look pretty happy on Instagram.

~ Crystal Woods

I'm thirty-four.You don't look thirty-four.That's because I'm not married. Mae's smile felt as if it were set in concrete. Marriage tends to age a woman.

~ Jennifer Crusie

To help our youth abide by the principles involved in temple marriage, we must help them to understand that temple marriage is more than just a place where the ceremony occurs; it is a whole orientation to life and marriage and home. It is a culmination of building attitudes toward the Church, chastity, and about our personal relationship with God--and many other things. Thus, simply preaching temple marriage is not enough. Our family home evenings, seminaries, institutes, and auxiliaries must build toward this goal, not by exhortation alone but by showing that the beliefs and attitudes involved in temple marriage are those which can bring the kind of life here and in eternity that most humans really want for themselves (The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, p. 244).

~ Harold B. Lee

I‘m very aware that my personal life, my marriage, is the source of speculation and interest in the department and with the public. I can live with that. I’m also aware that my husband’s businesses, and his style of conducting his businesses, are also the source of speculation and interest. I have no particular problem with that. But I resent very much that my reputation and my husband’s character should be questioned this way. From the media, Commander, it’s to be expected, but not from my superior officer. Not from any member of the department I’ve served to the best of my ability. I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

~ J.d. Robb

Respect is more valuable then the amount of times guys flirt with you.It's better to have one trustworthy real man then any amount of boys interested in you. The cool guys may not notice or date you but the right one will marry you.

~ Rachel Hamilton

True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.

~ Chana Levitan

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.

~ Peter Ustinov

We live in a multidimensional world. Why would you live a one-dimensional love? If you love someone... feel it, speak it, show it, be it.Do more than tell them… show them. Let them feel your dedicated respect and your unwavering devotion.Ensure that your commitment and passion are known and unquestionable. Show them what they mean to you… what they are to you. And… if you don’t feel inspired to show your love in this multidimensional manner… be kind enough to let them go… so they can find someone who will.

~ Steve Maraboli

A righteous wife is a respectful wife.

~ Habeeb Akande

How did so many women get to this unhappy place of not understanding how truly simple men are in their requirements and how much benevolent power their wives have over them? Why did notions like assuaging male ego and using feminine wiles rocket into disrepute? How is it that so many women are angry with men in general yet expect to have a happy life married to one of them?There are a number of reasons for this, and I believe they all revolve around the assault upon, and virtual collapse of, the values of religious morality, modesty, fidelity, chastity, respect for life, and a commitment to family and child-rearing.

~ Laura Schlessinger

Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored neatly in the toolbox.

~ Shawn T. Smith

Successful couples learn the secret of fighting for their relationship rather than against one another.

~ Bill Farrel

A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.

~ Pam Farrel

The bottom line with men is: they feel best about themselves when they are solving problems. Therefore, they spend most of their time doing what they are best at while they attempt to ignore the things which cause them to feel deficient.

~ Bill Farrel

It is lack of communication that leads to unhappy marriage.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.

~ Jim George

Communication is not a one-way street.

~ Jim George

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

~ Shannon L. Alder