MARRIAGE QUOTES XI

quotations about marriage

No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.

CHARLES R. SWINDOLL

Marriage: From Surviving to Thriving

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The longer a marriage is put off, the less probability that it will occur at all.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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Marriage is, in actual fact, just a way of living. Before marriage, we don't expect life to be all sunshine and roses, but we seem to expect marriage to be that way.

LESLIE L. PARROTT

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

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Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

JOSEPH COOK

Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events

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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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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Personal Merit", Les Caractères

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I never was attached to that great sect,
Whose doctrine is, that each one should select
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,
And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend
To cold oblivion, though it is in the code
Of modern morals, and the beaten road
Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread,
Who travel to their home among the dead
By the broad highway of the world, and so
With one chained friend -- perhaps a jealous foe,
The dreariest and the longest journey go.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Epipsychidion

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The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
Children you destroy together
That make a marriage a joy.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

Company

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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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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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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What's Wrong with the World

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The present marriage laws are very propitious towards making Cuckoldom the normal state of men.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims

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Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can't help but wonder what would have happened if you'd chosen some other dessert--brownies, for instance, or frozen yogurt ... or maybe chocolate strudel.

JEROME P. CRABB

Marriage Quotes and Quibbles


So many promising girls allowed themselves to be submerged altogether in marriage for a time, and when they emerged everyone had forgotten the promise of their début.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

Marriage

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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


Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

SUSAN B. ANTHONY

speech, spring 1875

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Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

EVAN WOLFSON

Why Marriage Matters

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Marriage is socialism among two people.

BARBARA EHRENREICH

The Worst Years of Our Lives

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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends

HOMER

The Odyssey

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Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage) so long as it promotes the happiness of the persons married, and the procreation, support, and education of children, and so long as it is founded on the joint free contract of the persons married, and remains under the sanction of the organic society of which those persons are members.

WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE

Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

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