MARRIAGE QUOTES XI

quotations about marriage

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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The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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

MAE WEST

Sextette

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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

ALEXANDER POPE

The Wife of Bath

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Some women marry for love, some for money, and some for a home. It is not known why men marry.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE

Country Town Sayings

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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


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


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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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman.... It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.

LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH

Venus in Furs

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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

HELEN ROWLAND

A Guide to Men

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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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Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

BETTY JANE WYLIE

Family: An Exploration

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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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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 is the union of two hearts, without which there can be no marriage; but where this is the case, and the legal ceremony takes place, it is registered in Heaven. A father or mother getting their daughter to marry a man she does not care for is simply selling her, and a sin in all concerned, which cannot turn out for her happiness, but must lead to a life of mental misery and mental degradation. Having given their children a good Christian education, parents have no right to prevent, or try to prevent, their children marrying whosoever they choose, provided there is nothing against the character of the person chosen. Selling a young woman to an old man who is wealthy is a loathsome and disgusting sight; and the young woman should resist such a union at all hazards; for with such a marriage, or so-called marriage, ends all hope of earthly happiness and self-respect.

T. AUGUSTUS FORBES LEITH

"On Marriage", Short Essays


Our parents' marriage makes a huge impact on our own marriage. Our parents teach us what relationships are and give us scripts for the way we understand love. What's more, we are drawn to the familiar. This is why people who resemble our parents feel like home and, in effect, why many of us marry someone like our opposite-sex parent. While this seems like great news for those of us who grew up with positive experiences of love, it might be a little disheartening for those who didn't.

LAURA TRIGGS

"Why I Stopped Comparing My Marriage to My Parents' Marriage", Verily Mag, November 30, 2017


When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

letter to Leigh Hunt

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Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source
Of human offspring, sole propriety,
In Paradise of all things common else.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost

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Husband and wife did not need to speak words to one another, not just from the old habit of living together but because in that one long-ago instant at least out of the long and shabby stretch of their human lives, even though they knew at the time it wouldn't and couldn't last, they had touched and become as God when they voluntarily and in advance forgave one another for all that each knew the other could never be.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Go Down, Moses

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