MARRIAGE QUOTES XVI

quotations about marriage

Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord."

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Marriage Ring

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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions today.

WILLIAM BOLITHO

Twelve Against the Gods

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It is internal union, not external agreement, that makes the real marriage.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

A Dream Play

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance

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Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Middlesex

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Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and his England

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Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.

ROBI LUDWIG

Till Death Do Us Part

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My new found meaning of Marriage is a place where you can be yourself and has breathing space to grow personally and spiritually as and when I want without having to consult my partner about my changes. It is a beautiful place without suffocation, a place where you can learn and teach each other, a place where you do not feel prohibited and a place where you do not have to log in and log out.

JEANETTE DE JONK

Unconventional & Spiritual Marriage

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People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

HARRIET LERNER

Twitter post, November 2, 2014

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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship--a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is; a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.

ANTHONY STORK

The Integrity of Personality

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

JOHN UPDIKE

foreword, Too Far To Go

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

HELEN ROWLAND

A Guide to Men

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If love be not thy chiefest motive, thou wilt soon grow weary of a married state, and stray from thy promise, to search out thy pleasures in forbidden places.

WILLIAM PENN

Some Fruits of Solitude

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What kind of place would set the age of consent at 17--but allow pregnant girls as young as 11 to marry? Florida: its law is less progressive than Afghanistan's. It is one of 25 US states that allow girls of any age to marry in certain circumstances, such as with judicial approval. Others have minimums set as low as 13. Though boys too are affected, those affected are overwhelmingly female: almost nine in 10 children who marry are girls, and only rarely do they wed a peer. Almost a third wed men of 21 or older. Marriage is often seen as protecting girls, especially if they are pregnant, but it locks children into abusive relationships. In some states, child brides cannot initiate legal action such as a divorce--or even access refuges--because they are minors.

EDITORS

"The Guardian view on child marriage: wedlock is a padlock for girls", The Guardian, November 29, 2017


Marriage has some thorns, but celibacy has no roses.

VERNON K. MCLELLAN

Wise Words and Quotes

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There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

NORMAN MAILER

News Summaries, December 31, 1969

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

DAVID MINKOFF

Oy!