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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.
Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.
Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.
Before marriage, when a woman speaks to a man in an undertone, he calls it "cooing"; after marriage, he calls it nagging.
I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.
Because sexual intimacy is so sacred, the Lord requires self-control and purity before marriage, as well as full fidelity after marriage... Tears inevitably follow transgression. Men, take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
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.
The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
I don't believe in sex before marriage. I go out with boys, and we kiss, but that's it.
I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride".
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.
Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
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.
Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.
So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.
The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.
But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.