MARRIAGE QUOTES VII

quotations about marriage

Spend time, talk it out before you get married. And figure it out. Make sure your really big issues you agree on. How you're going to raise your kids. If you're going to have kids. Your religion. All this kind of stuff. What do you think about money? Your morality? All these things. The big shit. Make sure you talk this stuff out, because this is the stuff that counts, not whether or not he picks up his clothes.

PAT BENATAR

interview, The Believer, May 1, 2003

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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


The next step was the use of huts and skins and fire,
And women became the property of one man.
So the chaste pleasures of a private Venus
Were first invented and couples had their own children.
It was then that the human race began to soften.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura

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[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

The Days Before

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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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It will perhaps appear extraordinary that in speaking of marriage we have touched upon so many subjects; but marriage is not only the whole of human life, it is the whole of two human lives. Now just as the addition of a figure to the drawing of a lottery multiplies the chances a hundredfold, so one single life united to another life multiplies by a startling progression the risks of human life, which are in any case so manifold.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

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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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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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We could probably date the conception of "modern" marriage at around 1850, with its gestation through the Gilded Age, and its birth about 1920. Not coincidentally, serenading that pregnancy and birth has been a steadily rising chorus of outcries about the death of marriage and the family. By the 1920s every third magazine article seemed to be titled "Will Modern Marriage Survive?" Of course, reports of marriage's death have been greatly exaggerated: even laying aside the peculiar 1950s (which none of "the family" doomsayers foresaw), marriage remains outrageously popular, divorce statistics and all.

E. J. GRAFF

What is Marriage for?

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A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he's finished.

ZSA ZSA GABOR

Newsweek, March 28, 1960

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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.

HELEN ROWLAND

Reflections of a Bachelor Girl

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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 is often like Procrustes' famous code of hospitality. Procrustes built a bed for his guests the same way we build a marriage: according to his own expectations. Shorter visitors were stretched to fit; taller folks were surgically shortened. Likewise, your spouse will try to change you into what he or she thinks you should be, just as you have fine-tuning in mind for your partner.... Marriage is the procrustean bed in which we can develop and enhance our psychological and ethical integrity. It can be the cradle of adult development.

DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH

Passionate Marriage

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

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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

MARTIN LUTHER

Table Talk

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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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