MARRIAGE QUOTES III
quotations about marriage
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.
PAUL REISER
Couplehood
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Man and Superman
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
LORD BYRON
Hours of Idleness
Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL
Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Marriage and Single Life", Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
HARLAN MILLER
attributed, Wise Words and Quotes
Marriage is a legal and financial contract, not just a spiritual and emotional one. This is why marital contracts are dissolved by the state (and specifically the court), not by the church. However, too often people pay a high price for ignoring this reality when ending a marriage. Women, in particular, are particularly vulnerable when failing to prepare for divorce, because they are more likely than men to experience a decrease in their standard of living in the year after ending a marriage.
ALFRED EDMOND, JR.
"3 Business Principles to Embrace When Ending a Marriage", Black Enterprise, November 28, 2017
Marriage is hard work; the illusion that you get married and live happily ever after is absolute rubbish.
JULIE ANDREWS
The New York Times, March 14, 1982
Nobody's ready for marriage. Marriage makes you ready for marriage.
DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH
Passionate Marriage
A man ought not to marry without having studied anatomy, and dissected at least one woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
Marriage is a three-ring circus--engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.
DAVID MINKOFF
Oy!
Well, the old theory was "marry an older man because they're more mature". But the new theory is "men don't mature -- marry a young one".
RITA RUDNER
Best of the Improv, Vol. 3, 2003
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
RICHARD FORD
The Sportswriter
A wife? A mistress rather ... he would not wed: that was to stoop in chains, renounce his wings, break body and heart and soul for daily bread, get down and crawl among all crawling things!
CONRAD AIKEN
"Youth"
Researchers in Canada say they have discovered the part of the brain that is used to make decisions, and this is weird: If you're married, it's actually located in your wife's brain.
JIMMY FALLON
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, November 26, 2013
Many marriages would be saved if we would only listen with the same passion that we feel about wanting to be heard.
HARRIET LERNER
Twitter post, February 8, 2014
Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
attributed, The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
ISADORA DUNCAN
My Life
While it is perfectly true that sexual energy may be in large degree arrested, and transformed into intellectual and moral forms, yet it is also true that pleasure itself, and above all, sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. It is largely this remarkable function of sexual pleasure which is decisive in settling the argument of those who claim that continence is the only alternative to the animal end of marriage. That argument ignores the liberating and harmonising influences, giving wholesome balance and sanity to the whole organism, imparted by a sexual union which is the outcome of the psychic as well as physical needs. There is, further, in the attainment of the spiritual end of marriage, much more than the benefit of each individual separately. There is, that is to say, the effect on the union itself. For through harmonious sex relationships a deeper spiritual unity is reached than can possibly be derived from continence in or out of marriage, and the marriage association becomes an apter instrument in the service of the world.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
"The Objects of Marriage", Little Essays of Love and Virtue