Marriage Quotes
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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
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Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.
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Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
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Unlike a disappointing marriage, disappointing motherhood cannot be terminated by divorce.
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I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
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Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in.
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Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
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Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.
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Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.
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Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
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A woman who ran a feminist organization in India told me one thing that stands out for her is bride burning. If a groom's family doesn't like an arranged marriage and they want to get rid of the woman, in-laws may set fire to her in the kitchen, or she may commit suicide in a "kitchen fire".
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It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
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The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
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Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?
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Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.
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Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
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All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
