Marriage Quotes

Let every girl who marries stand by her husband, claim to be her husband's friend and equal, and refuse to be his slave. I am sure if you follow this advice, you will bring honour and glory to yourselves.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception".

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people, but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning-consequently it is being abolished.

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

Socrates-the malicious Socrates, it would seem, married ironically, just to demonstrate this proposition.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Children have the right to grow up in a family with a father and mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child's development and emotional maturity. Today marriage and the family are in crisis. We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.