MARRIAGE QUOTES VII

quotations about marriage

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.

MEXICAN PROVERB


Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

attributed, And I Quote

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Marriage is not an event. It's a journey. And what I mean by that is you learn from each other every day.

JUDITH HARRIS

Birmingham Times, November 29, 2017


Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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One of the best wedding gifts God gave you was a full-length mirror called your spouse. Had there been a card attached, it would have said, "Here's to helping you discover what you're really like!"

GARY & BETSY RICUCCI

attributed, Sacred Marriage


A marriage bound together by commitments to exploit the other for filling one's own needs (and I fear that most marriages are built on such a basis) can legitimately be described as a "tic on a dog" relationship. Just as a hungry tic clamps on to a nourishing host in anticipation of a meal, so each partner unites with the other in the expectation of finding what his or her personal nature demands. The rather frustrating dilemma, of course, is that in such a marriage there are two tics and no dog!

LARRY CRABB

The Marriage Builder

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If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Use of Life

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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

PHYLLIS DILLER

attributed, Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women

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According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Show with David Letterman, January 11, 2012

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I'll suffer no daughter of mine to play the fool with her heart, indeed! She shall marry for the purpose for which matrimony was ordained amongst people of birth--that is, for the aggrandisement of her family, the extending of their political influence--for becoming, in short, the depository of their mutual interest. These are the only purposes for which persons of rank ever think of marriage.

SUSAN FERRIER

Marriage

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I fall in love easily. I love the marriage ceremony. I love the honeymoon phase. I just don't want to be married. I'm not marriage material, but I am a very good honeymooner.

FERN MICHAELS

The Marriage Game

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Let your love advise before you choose, and your choice be fixed before you marry: Remember the happiness or misery of your life depends upon this one act, and ... nothing but death can dissolve the knot.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all.

QUEEN VICTORIA

letter to her daughter, May 3, 1858


Marriage, rightly concluded, is an incarnation of love--poetry expressed in action--a sweet embellishment of an otherwise prosaic existence.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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If sex is supposed to be satisfying and anxiety-free once we are safely ensconced in marriage, how come that's when many of us stop wanting it?

DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH

Passionate Marriage

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Well-married, a man is winged--ill-matched, he is shackled.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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That little ditty about love coming first, then marriage, then the baby carriage--it's history. Over the past few decades more and more single people have been having children, and more and more married couples have not been.

BELLA DEPAULO

Singled Out

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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

MARTIN LUTHER

Table Talk

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Love and fairytales are nice, but marriage is technically a contract, and it's worth reading the fine-print before signing your name.

MAUREEN SHAW

"The Sexist and Racist History of Marriage That No One Talks About", Teen Vogue, November 28, 2017


Our natural tendency in the middle of winter is to avoid the elements as much as possible. When the weather turns frigid, we retreat inside for survival and wait for it to warm up or for the season to change. In a winter marriage, there may be a similar tendency to "avoid the elements." Spouses may withdraw within themselves, hunkering down and trying to ride out the cold season, hoping for spring but not taking any positive steps to move their marriage toward spring. However, unlike the natural seasons, the seasons of a marriage do not typically change without some positive action--unless it's a change from bad to worse.

GARY D. CHAPMAN

The Four Seasons of Marriage

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