Marriage Preparation Quotes

It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

Well what's in your Amazonian hope chest?

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

I do not want my man to be exhausted for our wedding day, especially our wedding night.

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

The trouble is people leave too much to luck. They get married and then trust to luck. They should be sure in the first place.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

One day it hit me: Truest friends, God bless their hearts, could not care less. They love you, they're pleased you're getting married and, ultimately, they don't give a fig how you get it done.

Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.

One of the leading causes of divorce is sexual incompatibility. Why not mandate premarital sex, overseen, of course, by the Marriage Board to ensure that it was carried out and completed as required? The final exam question could be: "Was it good for you two?" For good measure, the engaged couple should be required to work together on a home improvement project like installing a kitchen sink or finishing a basement. That's the ultimate test of a marital relationship.

Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

America may soon experience the transition that has already occurred in Australia where living together before marriage has become a protective factor against divorce.

Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet service to see who they really are.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride".

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

I want to get married but I look at husbands the same way I look at tattoos. I want one, but I can't decide what I want, and I don't want to be stuck with something I'd grow to hate and have surgically removed.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

Yes, I would definitely let the 'Queer Eye' - I mean, cameras - follow me for my marriage.