MARRIAGE QUOTES X

quotations about marriage

Not everyone believes that marriage transforms miserable and immature single people into paragons of maturity and bliss.

BELLA DEPAULO

Singled Out

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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

The Country Wife

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Five times? Wedding bells must sound like an alarm clock to you.

MAE WEST

I'm No Angel

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Happiness in marriage results in perfect union of soul between a married pair. Hence it follows that in order to be happy a man must feel himself bound by certain rules of honor and delicacy. After having enjoyed the benefit of the social law which consecrates the natural craving, he must obey also the secret laws of nature by which sentiments unfold themselves. If he stakes his happiness on being himself loved, he must himself love sincerely: nothing can resist a genuine passion.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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Marriage does not unite two people; it entangles them.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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The expectations you bring to your partnership can make or break your marriage. Don't miss out on the sterling moments of marriage because your ideals are out of sync with your partner's. Don't believe the myth that you and your partner automatically come with the same expectations for marriage. Instead, remember that the more openly you discuss your differing expectations, the more likely you are to create a vision of marriage that you agree on--and that is unique to the two of you.

LESLIE L. PARROTT

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

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Marriage is one thing, and love is another... You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

Climats

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The secret to a long and healthy marriage is to work at it and don't try and change each other.

JACK LALANNE

interview with James Marshall, September 16, 2007

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The present marriage laws are very propitious towards making Cuckoldom the normal state of men.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Thrice happy's the wooing That's not long a-doing!
So much time is saved in the billing and cooing --
The ring is now bought, the white favours, and gloves,
And all the et cetera which crown people's loves.

RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM

The Ingoldsby Legends

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I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California I have to go to prison don't I? I think you only get three.

ROSEANNE BARR

Larry King Live, March 2, 2006

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The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding.

GARY SMALLEY

attributed, Worth Repeating

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

JOHN UPDIKE

Couples

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The longer a marriage is put off, the less probability that it will occur at all.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Ah. That ceremony. I see. That's it, then. A formula, a shibboleth meaningless as a child's game, performed by someone created by the situation whose need it answered: a crone mumbling in a dungeon lighted by a handful of burning hair, something in a tongue which not even the girls themselves understand anymore, maybe not even the crone herself, rooted in nothing of economics for her or for any possible progeny since the very fact that we acquiesced, suffered the farce, was her proof and assurance of that which the ceremony itself could never enforce; vesting no new rights in anyone, denying to none the old--a ritual as meaningless as that of college boys in secret rooms at night, even to the same archaic and forgotten symbols?--you call that a marriage, when the night of a honeymoon and the casual business with a hired prostitute consists of the same suzerainty over a (temporarily) private room, the same order of removing the same clothes, the same conjunction in a single bed? Why not call that a marriage too?

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Absalom, Absalom!

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Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

EVAN WOLFSON

Why Marriage Matters

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In the New Testament a totally new concept of marriage is being introduced; it is directly dependent upon the "Good News" of the Resurrection which was brought to Christ. A Christian is called--already in this world--to experience new life, to become a citizen of the Kingdom; and he can do so in marriage. But then marriage ceases to be either a simple satisfaction of temporary natural urges, or a means for securing an illusory survival through posterity. It is a unique union of two beings in love, two beings who can transcend their own humanity and thus be united not only "with each other," but also "in Christ."

JOHN MEYENDORFF

Marriage: An Orthodox Perspective

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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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So many promising girls allowed themselves to be submerged altogether in marriage for a time, and when they emerged everyone had forgotten the promise of their début.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

Marriage

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Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

speech, spring 1875

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