Quotes About Marriage Contract

#1. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Isadora Duncan

#2. 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

#3. The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home.

Billy Graham

#4. A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Dalton Trumbo

#5. A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

J. Paul Getty

#6. Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.

Laura Wasser

#7. For me to forgive my ex, he would have to sign a marriage contract with his tears and seal it with his blood.

Natalya Vorobyova

#8. I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife.

Harvey Fierstein

#9. If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right.

Simon Cowell

#10. A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

Scott Hahn

#11. Is your marriage a contract or a covenant?

Randall Foreman

#12. A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

Honore De Balzac

#13. While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other ... There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.

Muriel Fox

#14. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.

Elizabeth Lesser

#15. Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. I'm sure in the past I've said marriage is stupid. Marriage makes someone sign a contract promising something they really can't deliver. I'm sure I will again say marriage is dumb. But I can also imagine why it could be lovely. There's something beautiful about truly being there for another person.

Amy Schumer

#17. Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#18. Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

Linda Fiorentino

#19. Marriage is a contract. Love is non-negotiable.

Jessica Zafra

#20. I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

Mike Nichols

#21. Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart

Martellis Thurmand

#22. Marriage is a legal contract
it's not a sacred thing.

Sarah J. Maas

#23. Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth. The

Charles Dickens

#24. Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract.

Margaret Atwood

#25. There is a crisis in America. That crisis is divorce. It is easier to get out of a marriage than (to get out of a) contract to buy a used car.

Mike Huckabee

#26. Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law ... It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

Joseph Story

#27. Make poverty, sickness, and death central issues in the contract," he says, "it's no wonder the divorce rate is fifty percent.

Melissa Jensen

#28. I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

Helen Reddy

#29. I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

Laura Wasser

#30. Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.

John Sentamu

#31. How can she let herself love him, when she's signed a contract to let him go?

Ros Clarke

#32. Marriage is sacred. It was created to be the wedding portrait of Christ and His Bride hung over the blazing fireplace of judgment. A match made in Heaven, a contract signed in blood. In the bond of marriage, we are to stand at the altar of Sacrifice or we're not to stand at all.

Beth Moore

#33. A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement of your rings, And all the ceremony of this compact Seal'd in my function, by my testimony.

William Shakespeare

#34. Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.

Deirdre Madden

#35. The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#36. [Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Ken Blanchard

#37. Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will..

Bruce C. Hafen

#38. A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

George Bernard Shaw

#39. It was a love that was not a contract but an affection of the soul.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#40. Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter into it with a lack of maturity and knowledge. The growing number of divorces shows how imperative it is that young people be adequately prepared for marriage.

Billy Graham

#41. What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing.

Max Kellerman

#42. I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

Charlie Sheen

#43. I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.

Jill McCorkle

#44. I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.

Katharine Hepburn

#45. In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Colin Powell