Marriage Quotes

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Martin Luther

Jane Austen

Nikola Tesla

Queen Victoria

Ambrose Bierce

Henry Adams

Jane Ellen Harrison

Man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

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

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
LVI.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Love Peacock

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships — marriages, families, and organizations of every kind — together.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.

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

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in again.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein