Quotes about what Marriage is

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned. Votes: 2

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? Votes: 2

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married. Votes: 2

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity. Votes: 2

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people. Votes: 2

Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it. Votes: 2

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. Votes: 2

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is. Votes: 2

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. Votes: 2

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. Votes: 2

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. Votes: 2

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important. Votes: 2

When I'm weak, you can be strong; when I'm strong, you can be weak. That's what I believe marriage is. Votes: 2

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.' Votes: 2

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. Votes: 2

Well I think in a marriage you have to be honest and ask yourself, you know, what is my role? What is my responsibility? Votes: 2

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. Votes: 2

Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash? Votes: 2

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure. Votes: 2

I think that with marriages, people have to understand that you have to look at your marriage and understand what is needed in your marriage - not what people think your marriage should be or what people want your marriage to be. Votes: 2

What was marriage but sex plus property. Votes: 0

What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage? Votes: 0

Marriage is to family what legs are to a table. Votes: 0

I'm not quite sure what the santicity of marriage is. Votes: 0

What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! Votes: 0

This was what marriage was like, being able to look one's fill. Votes: 0

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business. Votes: 0

What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse's holiness. Votes: 0

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. Votes: 0

Marriage is like pantyhose. It all depends on what you put into it. Votes: 0

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. Votes: 0

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety. Votes: 0

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand. Votes: 0

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. Votes: 0

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have. Votes: 0

If you want a successful marriage, let your husband do what he wants to do. Votes: 0

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived. Votes: 0

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. Votes: 0

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor. Votes: 0

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings. Votes: 0

What I found out about myself was I am not someone who doesn't believe in marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. Votes: 0

Marriage? I don't know what I really think about marriage. I'm a bit confused on that issue. Votes: 0

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out. Votes: 0

When marriage is what it ought to be, it is indeed the very happiest condition of existence. Votes: 0

At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor. Votes: 0

A storybook marriage? No, not at all. What Mitt Romney and I have is a real marriage. Votes: 0

What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy? Votes: 0

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage. Votes: 0

Clear communication. Respect. A lot of laughter. And a lot of orgasms. That's what makes a marriage work. Votes: 0

People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky. Votes: 0

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces. Votes: 0

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away. Votes: 0

What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage. Votes: 0

It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good. Votes: 0

I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage. Votes: 0

Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat Votes: 0

That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do. Votes: 0

But the fact is, I looked at my life and realized I already had what people sought in marriage. Votes: 0

Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. Votes: 0

Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise? Votes: 0

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it. Votes: 0

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want? Votes: 0

I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all. Votes: 0

I'm against redefining marriage historically 5,000 years... because then it'll be re-defined. What if it's between a brother and a sister? Votes: 0

If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy. Votes: 0

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object. Votes: 0

That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser Votes: 0

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. Votes: 0

I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed. Votes: 0

When I get married I'm going to make the marriage work. Getting married is forever, no matter what my spouse does. Votes: 0

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. Votes: 0

Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! Votes: 0

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. Votes: 0

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me. Votes: 0

My parents have been married for 42 years. Their marriage has been - from what I can see - a happy one. Votes: 0

No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know. Votes: 0

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. Votes: 0

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Votes: 0

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. Votes: 0

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. Some people are offended by mixed marriage, gay people, atheism. So what? F*** 'em. Votes: 0

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give. Votes: 0

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? Votes: 0

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. Votes: 0

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. Votes: 0

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes. Votes: 0

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. Votes: 0

What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith. Votes: 0

Every marriage is weird! That's what it is - we just all need to start embracing the fact that there is no normal. Votes: 0

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach. Votes: 0

Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted. Votes: 0

You don't marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money. Votes: 0

What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out. Votes: 0

A monogamous marriage and family is what some women want - but not all of us. We are mostly doing serial monogamy anyway. Votes: 0

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. Votes: 0

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine? Votes: 0

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is. Votes: 0

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me. Votes: 0

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. Votes: 0

My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like. Votes: 0

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [...] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. Votes: 0

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters Votes: 0

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. Votes: 0

What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day. Votes: 0

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage. Votes: 0

I have a very realistic image of what marriage should be. It takes effort, but it shouldn't be the hardest thing that you do. Votes: 0

At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health. Votes: 0

My wife and I have what's known as mixed marriage. I am a Methodist, she is a Muslim. So we're keeping it in the M's. Votes: 0

There are two covenants that cease to exist in the Master's Kingdom - death and marriage.""What an appropriate pairing," I muse."He thought so." Votes: 0

As many times as I have done 'Marriage of Figaro,' I have never been able to ask Mozart what he intended in this piece. Votes: 0

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. Votes: 0

I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved. Votes: 0

Going home, it's what everybody's trying to do from the day they're born to the day they die, but going home together - that's marriage. Votes: 0

When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off. Votes: 0

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple. Votes: 0

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon. Votes: 0

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake. Votes: 0

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple. Votes: 0

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain. Votes: 0

It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in. Votes: 0

Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture. Votes: 0

What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture. Votes: 0

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. Votes: 0

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business. Votes: 0

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237) Votes: 0

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage. Votes: 0

Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? Votes: 0

Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow. Votes: 0

Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute? Votes: 0

What the restored gospel brings to the discussion on marriage and family is so large and so relevant that it cannot be overstated: we make the subject eternal! Votes: 0

I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love. Votes: 0

Really with marriage, from what I've heard about from different friends that are married, you can't entirely be prepared. There are things you can only learn in marriage. Votes: 0

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. Votes: 0

I think that when you get married you have consented to sex. That's what marriage is all about, I don't know if maybe these girls missed sex ed. Votes: 0

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night. Votes: 0

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work! Votes: 0

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. Votes: 0

There are bursts of things like Abraham Lincoln or Ronald Reagan or Franklin Delano Roosevelt or same-sex marriage that change very much what we thought we were all about. Votes: 0

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there. Votes: 0

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. Votes: 0

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career. Votes: 0

Sarah Palin has strong opinions on the Libyans. She said, 'Marriage is between a man and a woman and Libyans like Rachel Maddow are what's ruining this country.' Votes: 0

I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life. Votes: 0

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage. Votes: 0

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy. Votes: 0

If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex. Votes: 0

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. Votes: 0

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. Votes: 0

What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family. Votes: 0

Marriage is what marriage is ... It's like going out and saying, 'That tree is a car.' Well, the tree's not a car. A tree's a tree. Marriage is marriage. Votes: 0

The Apache don't have a word for love, he said. Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?Tell me.Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say. Votes: 0

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means. Votes: 0

there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means. Votes: 0

I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter. Votes: 0