MARRIAGE QUOTES VI

quotations about marriage

Life throws something different at every couple. I've noticed that even just with the small things, we have a choice on how we will face the good times and bad, plus everything in between. Sometimes these experiences leave lasting marks that help us hone certain skills that wouldn't naturally appear in a vacuum. Along the way, you will develop the rituals, traditions, habits, and values that make your marriage unique.

LAURA TRIGGS

"Why I Stopped Comparing My Marriage to My Parents' Marriage", Verily Mag, November 30, 2017


Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

ANDREA DWORKIN

Pornography

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We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

The Days Before

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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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Love and fairytales are nice, but marriage is technically a contract, and it's worth reading the fine-print before signing your name.

MAUREEN SHAW

"The Sexist and Racist History of Marriage That No One Talks About", Teen Vogue, November 28, 2017


Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.

MEXICAN PROVERB


One of the best wedding gifts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, "Here's to helping you discover what you're really like!"

GARY & BETSY RICUCCI

attributed, Sacred Marriage


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

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The Rivals

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Maxims for Revolutionists

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Marriage may sometimes be compared to a lottery, in which it is better not to have purchased a ticket than to have drawn a blank.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

attributed, And I Quote

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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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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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The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.

LARRY CRABB

The Marriage Builder

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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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A single life is doubtless preferable to a married one, where prudence and affection do not accompany the choice; but where they do, there is no terrestrial happiness equal to the married state.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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I fall in love easily. I love the marriage ceremony. I love the honeymoon phase. I just don't want to be married. I'm not marriage material, but I am a very good honeymooner.

FERN MICHAELS

The Marriage Game

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