What Is Marriage Quotes

Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.

The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.

Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.

I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they ratified the 14th Amendment.

Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

I thought it was interesting when [Bill Clinton] said, I married my best friend, because people are always asking, what is the nature of their marriage.

It's not that marriage itself is bad; it's the people we marry who give it a bad name.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.

I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

Everybody's problem is not yours, regardless of marriage and relationships, and I think women sometimes have to shed "what we think it should be" and address "what it is".

Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived.

You want one civil war, brah?

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Marriage is like war - an experience that no adventurous man would evade, and no sensible man repeat.

Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals.

I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

Marriage is better than leprosy only because it's easier to get rid of.