MARRIAGE QUOTES XIII

quotations about marriage

What are the legitimate objects of marriage? We know that many people seek to marry for ends that can scarcely be called legitimate, that men may marry to obtain a cheap domestic drudge or nurse, and that women may marry to be kept when they are tired of keeping themselves. These objects in marriage may or may not be moral, but in any case they are scarcely its legitimate ends. We are here concerned to ascertain those ends of marriage which are legitimate when we take the highest ground as moral and civilised men and women living in an advanced state of society and seeking, if we can, to advance that state of society still further.

HAVELOCK ELLIS

"The Objects of Marriage", Little Essays of Love and Virtue

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When the hour of adversity arrives, when false friends are scattered, when we are moving through the keen atmosphere of selfishness, then it is that the virtuous wife, like an angel of light, shines with peculiar lustre.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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I think one of the real tests of a stable marriage is being married to a man who worships at the shrine of burnt food -- the back-yard chef.

ERMA BOMBECK

I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression

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In the choice of a wife, we ought to make use of our ears, and not our eyes.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

NORA ROBERTS

Blue Smoke

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Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

HENRY ADAMS

Historical Essays

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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends

HOMER

The Odyssey

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Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

JOSEPH COOK

Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events

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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labour, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?

GEORGE ELIOT

Adam Bede

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Love is one long sweet dream, and marriage is the alarm clock.

DAVID MINKOFF

Oy!


The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters

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Upon marrying, we need most to pray for one of two things in our partners--the love that blinds, or the good-nature that excuses.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.

DOUGLAS CARLTON ABRAMS

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What's Wrong with the World

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Marriage is for woman the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Marriage and Morals


Marriage is socialism among two people.

BARBARA EHRENREICH

The Worst Years of Our Lives

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of domestic life more and more shadows have mingled, then ... and not till then, can the wife say of the husband, "He is worthy of love;" then, first, the husband say of the wife, "She blooms in imperishable beauty."

T. S. ARTHUR

"The Evening Before Marriage", Orange Blossoms

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Few marry their first loves; fewer ought to. The love of the very young is like the love of children for sweetmeats: they usually outgrow it.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.

SUZE ORMAN

The Road to Wealth

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