MARRIAGE QUOTES X

quotations about marriage

Marriage is not an event. It's a journey. And what I mean by that is you learn from each other every day.

JUDITH HARRIS

Birmingham Times, November 29, 2017


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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The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?

HERBERT SPENCER

An Autobiography

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Marriage is a serious undertaking. You must submit to family congratulations on certain events, and have a nursery at the top of the house. One doesn't know what a nursery may lead to.

ROBERT BELL

Marriage: A Comedy in Five Acts

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Marriage cures nothing--and least of all does it solve anyone's emotional problems.

SMILEY BLANTON

Love or Perish


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 and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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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 the agreement to let a family happen.

BETTY JANE WYLIE

Family: An Exploration

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A good marriage is good for you. That isn't just a platitude. Mounting research shows that it is the literal truth. When your marriage is healthy, your body and mind are healthier.

CLIFF ISAACSON

The Good-for-You Marriage

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What is marriage for?... Toaster ovens and silverware.

E. J. GRAFF

What is Marriage for?

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

JOHN UPDIKE

Couples

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Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

MAE WEST

Sextette

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

GARY SMALLEY

attributed, Worth Repeating

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Yet, from, an early period in human history, a secondary function of sexual intercourse had been slowly growing up to become one of the great objects of marriage. Among animals, it may be said, and even sometimes in man, the sexual impulse, when once aroused, makes but a short and swift circuit through the brain to reach its consummation. But as the brain and its faculties develop, powerfully aided indeed by the very difficulties of the sexual life, the impulse for sexual union has to traverse ever longer, slower, more painful paths, before it reaches--and sometimes it never reaches--its ultimate object. This means that sex gradually becomes intertwined with all the highest and subtlest human emotions and activities, with the refinements of social intercourse, with high adventure in every sphere, with art, with religion. The primitive animal instinct, having the sole end of procreation, becomes on its way to that end the inspiring stimulus to all those psychic energies which in civilisation we count most precious. This function is thus, we see, a by-product. But, as we know, even in our human factories, the by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product. That is so as regards the functional products of human evolution. The hand was produced out of the animal forelimb with the primary end of grasping the things we materially need, but as a by-product the hand has developed the function of making and playing the piano and the violin, and that secondary functional by-product of the hand we account, even as measured by the rough test of money, more precious, however less materially necessary, than its primary function. It is, however, only in rare and gifted natures that transformed sexual energy becomes of supreme value for its own sake without ever attaining the normal physical outlet. For the most part the by-product accompanies the product, throughout, thus adding a secondary, yet peculiarly sacred and specially human, object of marriage to its primary animal object. This may be termed the spiritual object of marriage.

HAVELOCK ELLIS

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

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The secret to a good marriage, as far as I am concerned, is a joke I make: Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

MICHAEL J. FOX

Good Housekeeping, April 2009

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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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Without sounding pessimistic, I learned that I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

DIANE KRUGER

Glamour Magazine, February 2011


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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