MARRIAGE QUOTES VII

quotations about marriage

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

PHYLLIS DILLER

attributed, Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women

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Marriage that daily doom.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich

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Marriage is punishment for shoplifting in some countries.

GARTH ALGAR (DANA CARVEY)

Wayne's World


But the child, how is it to be protected, if not for marriage? After all, is not that the most important consideration? The sham, the hypocrisy of it! Marriage protecting the child, yet thousands of children destitute and homeless. Marriage protecting the child, yet orphan asylums and reformatories overcrowded, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children keeping busy in rescuing the little victims from "loving" parents, to place them under more loving care, the Gerry Society. Oh, the mockery of it! Marriage may have the power to bring the horse to water, but has it ever made him drink? The law will place the father under arrest, and put him in convict's clothes; but has that ever stilled the hunger of the child? If the parent has no work, or if he hides his identity, what does marriage do then? It invokes the law to bring the man to "justice," to put him safely behind closed doors; his labor, however, goes not to the child, but to the State. The child receives but a blighted memory of his father's stripes.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"Marriage and Love", Anarchism and Other Essays

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No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.

DANIEL DEFOE

Moll Flanders

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A successful marriage is the result of falling in love often--with the same person.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


I don't know why some people get worked up about gay people marrying. It's not gay people who are "ruining the sanctity of marriage," it's celebrities.

CRAIG FERGUSON

The Late Show with Craig Ferguson, November 1, 2011

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When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

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Let your love advise before you choose, and your choice be fixed before you marry: Remember the happiness or misery of your life depends upon this one act, and ... nothing but death can dissolve the knot.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Spend time, talk it out before you get married. And figure it out. Make sure your really big issues you agree on. How you're going to raise your kids. If you're going to have kids. Your religion. All this kind of stuff. What do you think about money? Your morality? All these things. The big shit. Make sure you talk this stuff out, because this is the stuff that counts, not whether or not he picks up his clothes.

PAT BENATAR

interview, The Believer, May 1, 2003

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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

MARTIN LUTHER

Table Talk

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The next step was the use of huts and skins and fire,
And women became the property of one man.
So the chaste pleasures of a private Venus
Were first invented and couples had their own children.
It was then that the human race began to soften.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

LARRY CRABB

The Marriage Builder

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

ELLEN KEY

"The Morality of Woman"

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We could probably date the conception of "modern" marriage at around 1850, with its gestation through the Gilded Age, and its birth about 1920. Not coincidentally, serenading that pregnancy and birth has been a steadily rising chorus of outcries about the death of marriage and the family. By the 1920s every third magazine article seemed to be titled "Will Modern Marriage Survive?" Of course, reports of marriage's death have been greatly exaggerated: even laying aside the peculiar 1950s (which none of "the family" doomsayers foresaw), marriage remains outrageously popular, divorce statistics and all.

E. J. GRAFF

What is Marriage for?

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Marriage is like life in this -- that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Virginibus Puerisque

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Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Show with David Letterman, January 11, 2012

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Marriage, rightly concluded, is an incarnation of love--poetry expressed in action--a sweet embellishment of an otherwise prosaic existence.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Possibilities for the success of a marriage are endless. But you have to be willing to search for them.

JASON R. REDMOND

Are You Talking?

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