MARRIAGE QUOTES VI

quotations about marriage

Marriage can give one the deepest, happiest moments of life. And that's one of the reasons God created it. It was part of God's "Happiness Plan."

DAVID MICHAEL THOMAS

Christian Marriage

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The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.

LARRY CRABB

The Marriage Builder

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We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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Marriage may sometimes be compared to a lottery, in which it is better not to have purchased a ticket than to have drawn a blank.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and Church-begotten weed, marriage?

EMMA GOLDMAN

Anarchism and Other Essays

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Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.

EVAN WOLFSON

Why Marriage Matters

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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

GARRISON KEILLOR

"The Old Scout", The Writer's Almanac, October 4, 2005

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Maybe marriages were made in heaven, but we believe in giving the old-fashioned porch-swing some credit.

ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES

Poems and Paragraphs

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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

ELLEN KEY

"The Morality of Woman"

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A successful marriage is the result of falling in love often--with the same person.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


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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But the child, how is it to be protected, if not for marriage? After all, is not that the most important consideration? The sham, the hypocrisy of it! Marriage protecting the child, yet thousands of children destitute and homeless. Marriage protecting the child, yet orphan asylums and reformatories overcrowded, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children keeping busy in rescuing the little victims from "loving" parents, to place them under more loving care, the Gerry Society. Oh, the mockery of it! Marriage may have the power to bring the horse to water, but has it ever made him drink? The law will place the father under arrest, and put him in convict's clothes; but has that ever stilled the hunger of the child? If the parent has no work, or if he hides his identity, what does marriage do then? It invokes the law to bring the man to "justice," to put him safely behind closed doors; his labor, however, goes not to the child, but to the State. The child receives but a blighted memory of his father's stripes.

EMMA GOLDMAN

"Marriage and Love", Anarchism and Other Essays

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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


I don't know why some people get worked up about gay people marrying. It's not gay people who are "ruining the sanctity of marriage," it's celebrities.

CRAIG FERGUSON

The Late Show with Craig Ferguson, November 1, 2011

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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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When a match has equal partners, then I fear not.

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

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In a way, marriage is a cosmic joke; we [men and women] are so different from each other.

MARK GUNGOR

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage

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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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You're married, and suddenly you have your own family. There's a nice comfort in that. That part of your life is certain ... You've got your home in that other person.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Good Housekeeping, October 2010

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