MARRIAGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about marriage

Today's concept of marrying for love is a relatively new phenomenon. Historically, unions were transactional and women had no say in the matter. In colonial America, for example, there was no dating; fathers arranged their daughters' marriages with the goal of combining wealth and property. What's more, once married, women were prohibited from owning property. They were merely their husband's possession and lost all individual legal rights.

MAUREEN SHAW

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


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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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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A true Christian marriage proposal is an offer, not a request. Rather than saying in effect, "Will you do this for me?" when we invite another to enter the marriage relationship, the real question should be, "Will you accept what I want to give?"

GARY THOMAS

Sacred Marriage

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All of us, at least unconsciously, marry in the hope of healing our wounds. Even if we do not have a traumatic background, we still have hurts and unfilled needs that we carry inside. We all suffer from feelings of self-doubt, unworthiness, and inadequacy. No matter how nurturing our parents were, we never received enough attention and love. So in marriage we look to our spouse to convince us that we are worthwhile and to heal our infirmities.

LESLIE L. PARROTT

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

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I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Burwell Bassett, May 23, 1785

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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've been married eleven times. It would have been twelve, but one of my ex-wives tracked down all the others.

FERN MICHAELS

The Marriage Game

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If you can hang in there through minor and major differences of opinion, through each other's big and little screwups, year after year, you come to understand that the person you married is really, terribly flawed. There isn't a human being you can hang out with, day in and day out, for over a decade and not come to the same inescapable realization.

KYRAN PITTMAN

Good Housekeeping, June 2011

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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

The Scarlet Letter

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Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part; as knots the harder they are pulled, break the sooner.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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Possibilities for the success of a marriage are endless. But you have to be willing to search for them.

JASON R. REDMOND

Are You Talking?

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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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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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Two such as you with such a master speed
Cannot be parted nor be swept away
From one another once you are agreed
That life is only life forevermore
Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

ROBERT FROST

The Master Speed

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A man and a woman who, in their young days, agree to have done with sentimental life thereby renounce the search for adventure, the intoxication of new encounters, and the amazing refreshment produced by falling in love again. Their most vital source of energy is cut off; they are doomed to premature insensibility. Their life, scarcely begun, is finished. Nothing can break the monotony of an existence made up of burdens and duties. No further hope, no surprises, no conquests. Their one love will soon be tainted by the cares of housekeeping and the children's education. They will reach old age without ever having known the joys of youth. Marriage destroys romantic love which alone could justify it.

ANDRÉ MAUROIS

An Art of Living

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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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A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Eleanor Parke Custis, January 16, 1795

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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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Marriage is like life in this -- that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Virginibus Puerisque

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