Marital Bond Quotes

Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.

Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most.

I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

Where he [her husband John Adams] is wounded, I bleed.

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.

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

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.

I really cherish my time at home. As you know, I love my husband so much, but he's always doing everything for me out here to keep me rolling forward. But I don't get to do near enough for him. So when I'm at home, I like to cook for him and do some gardening - all that wife-y kinda stuff, you know?

She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.

Matrimony is the price of love -- divorce, the rebate.

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

I told my wife that I want to take a three-year break. She supported me and said, 'Please go ahead.' I am grateful that she supported me. For me, this romance and understanding is very important in our marriage.

My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'