Marriage Before Quotes

#1. And buxom, which means only obedient, is now made, in familiar phrases, to stand for wanton; because in an ancient form of marriage, before the Reformation, the bride promised complaisance and obedience, in these terms: "I will be bonair and buxom in bed and at board.

Samuel Johnson

#2. Those first few years of marriage, before the war interrupted all our lives, Phil and I had a very happy time. I grew up considerably, mostly thanks to him.

Katharine Graham

#3. With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.

Khloe Kardashian

#4. My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

Mike Huckabee

#5. Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.

Maureen Dowd

#6. The grass is often no greener on the other side, so stick it out and see if you can grow up within the relationship. Find happiness and emotional independence within yourself before placing unreasonable and often unexpressed expectations on your spouse.

Malti Bhojwani

#7. Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex ... without the guilt.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#8. My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

Maria Monk

#9. The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before.. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage of ... previously unrelated forms of reference or universes of discourse, whose union will solve the previously insoluble problem.

Arthur Koestler

#10. Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The

Chuck Klosterman

#11. When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.

Mas'udi

#12. My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don't have one.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Alanis Morissette

#14. I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

Jimmy Carr

#15. But in Marriage do thou be wise; prefer the Person before Money; Vertue before Beauty, the Mind before the Body: Then thou hast a Wife, a Friend, a Companion, a Second Self; one that bears an equal Share with thee in all thy Toyls and Troubles.

Various

#16. The Sultan's wife must never remain without books that please her: a clause in the marriage contract is involved, a condition the bride imposed on her august suitor before agreeing to the wedding ...

Italo Calvino

#17. Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

J. Paul Getty

#18. If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I'd choose to mimic the Macbeths - before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is.

Jillian Keenan

#19. Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

Joy Williams

#20. Get yourself healthy before you get yourself married. Too often we bring our unexamined selves into our marriage relationship. Also, have a cultivating commitment to have a quality relationship with each other in your marriage.

Neil Clark Warren

#21. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.

Stephen Colbert

#22. Those who marry before love "Manage Love" and those who love before marriage ,"Manage Marriage".

Rajesh Walecha

#23. Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Benjamin Franklin

#24. Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

Diana Trilling

#25. Marriage is an institution that existed before governments existed. It's something that reflects nature and reflects God and God's will for us. And both from the standpoint of faith and reason it makes all the sense in the world. And it's beneficial for society.

Rick Santorum

#26. Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.

Liane Moriarty

#27. Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#28. A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.

Karen Kingsbury

#29. Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

Helen Rowland

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

Joan Rivers

#31. The next morning he drove the stranger's car half way to the Registry of Motor Vehicles before he realized he could not apply for a driver's license. He suddenly realized he had left his name at the prison.

Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker

#32. Before marriage, we are carried along by the force of the in-love obsession. After marriage, we revert to being the people we were before we fell in love.

Gary Chapman

#33. Before we learn what's right, we put our trust in the wrong people, and it's never good to start life's adventures, especially important ones like marriage, when we're too young even to know ourselves.

Kristen Ashley

#34. My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.

Michael Douglas

#35. Who are we, this government or this country, to redefine the term marriage that has meant one man and one woman across cultures, across ages, across geographical barriers since before state and religion themselves?

Tim Loughton

#36. I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.

Gloria Steinem

#37. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Nancy Gibbs

#38. I have discovered that our great favorite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman ... with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers ...

Mary Russell Mitford

#39. Somehow, we both got carried away. I don't know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

Brenda Perlin

#40. I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.

Lady Gaga

#41. You are nothing to me - nothing," said Troy, heartlessly. "A ceremony before a priest doesn't make a marriage. I am not morally yours.

Thomas Hardy

#42. Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

Charlize Theron

#43. Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

Robert Ludlum

#44. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.

Lili Wright

#45. How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Randall Terry

#46. Before marriage keep your eyes wide open, after marriage keep them half closed.

Ivana Trump

#47. By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.

Wendy Shalit

#48. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

#49. The abstinence-only programs and reclaimed-virginity movement make men and women ashamed of being sexual creatures before or outside of marriage.

Darrel Ray

#50. Living with myself wasn't all that easy. I was not the young girl I once was. Once upon a time when I looked in the mirror, I saw this happy glow. Now nothing glowed except the leftover face cream from the night before.

Brenda Perlin

#51. Like many others before him, Abbott discovers, once married, that marriage is a battle - clinically, a negotiation - over the possession of the Bad Mood.

Chris Bachelder

#52. Big businesses are beginning to realize that the employee who puts his job before his home life is not as effective as the one who has a happy, fulfilling marriage.

Kevin Leman

#53. Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.

Charles Darwin

#54. Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

Pope Benedict XVI

#55. Wherever you are lacking, your obedience in working on that before your mate comes is vital.

Angelo M. Swinson

#56. I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.

Gary Numan

#57. My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#58. It's a marriage of convenience. Temporarily, so long as our interests coincide, however long it takes to dispose of that mob of petit blancs at Port-au-Prince. Afterward,' he waved his sticky fingers airily, 'everything will return to the way it was before.

Madison Smartt Bell

#59. 7 Principles of a Happy Marriage

Always listen
Be there
Compromise is necessary
Build up trust
A kiss before sleep, a kiss after waking
Never keep score
Do things together

Steven Aitchison

#60. You know, marriage is making a big comeback. I know personally that in Hollywood people are marrying people they never married before.

Bob Hope

#61. Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.

Jim George

#62. Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.

Brenda Perlin

#63. Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Honore De Balzac

#64. The reason Christians get married "before the church" is not to give a religious appearance to the ceremony but because Christians hold the marriage covenant in the context of the community of the body of Christ. Seeking the support and counsel of family is an extension of this.

Matt Chandler

#65. The problem with waiting to get your life in order before considering marriage is that you really have no idea when your life will be in order, if ever.

Lisa Anderson

#66. What kind of wedding would you like?" he asked, and stole another kiss before she could reply.
"The kind that turns you into my husband." She touched the firm line of his mouth with her fingers. "What kind would you like?"
He smiled ruefully. "A fast one.

Lisa Kleypas

#67. An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.

Jane Austen

#68. There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

Dodie Smith

#69. A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

Michael Glawogger

#70. The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten.

Roman Payne

#71. As many as half of Ethiopia's girls become wives before becoming adults. But Ethiopia is also a place where lasting solutions to child marriage are starting to make a difference.

Helene D. Gayle

#72. One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you.

Robert Breault

#73. Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

Virginia Woolf

#74. We would be more American on the day we permitted same-sex marriage than we were on the day before.

David Blankenhorn

#75. Putting together an agenda before a staff meeting is like a marriage counselor deciding what issues she's going to cover with a couple prior to meeting with them.

Patrick Lencioni

#76. Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

Rajneesh

#77. The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Ezra Taft Benson

#78. A man wants too many things before marriage, but only peace after it.

Pawan Mishra

#79. Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.

Mary Summer Rain

#80. A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

Gloria Steinem

#81. The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

Stephanie Coontz

#82. Such a mad marriage never was before.

William Shakespeare

#83. A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Erica Jong

#84. The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the "I do" of the wedding ritual in all sincerity, it is the testing of that vow over time that makes you married.

Kathleen Norris

#85. Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

Helen Rowland

#86. The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#87. Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage ...

Edith Head

#88. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

William Galston

#89. Within the magical community, most brides are virgins. Do you have any idea how many curses and other horrible things are associated with virginity and virgin bloodshed? For witches, having sex before marriage invites all sorts of evil magic in.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#90. The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents' wedding.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#91. What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

Gary Chapman

#92. God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.

Jim Norton

#93. With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man."
"That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.

Lisa Kleypas

#94. She always says she doesn't believe women should get married before the age of thirty-five ... she says women change so much in their twenties, they can't possibly know who they are, and the choices they make before the age of thirty are rarely good ones.

Jane Green

#95. You have a part of me that no one, and I mean no one, has ever had before.

J.B. McGee

#96. I would have married her before I went away to war too, just to make sure that someone else didn't.

V.T. Davy

#97. A wise woman has already a rite
Where she knows right from left.
She usually writes when she's right
And always leaves before she's left.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#98. I would like it to be known that I have decided not to marry Group Capt. Peter Townsend. Mindful of the church's teaching that Christian marriage is indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to the Commonwealth, I have resolved to put these considerations before any others.

Princess Margaret

#99. Alexa sniffled. "Oh my God, he gave her an airport scene! Just like in the books I read and all those movies. He followed her to an airport and confessed his love before she could board the plane!"
Nick laughed. "Sweetheart, she wasn't boarding the plane."
"Close enough.

Jennifer Probst

#100. I also learned what I and many other wives were doing wrong. We were neglecting ourselves. We were born women yet were taking care of our roles as mom, employee or wife before we took care of ourselves. But in order to adequately fulfill those roles, we have to put ourselves first.

Elona Washington