Marriage Quotes

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The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

Friedrich Engels

Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

Diana, Princess of Wales

My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members." —about the only statement i agree with in this book

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

Michel de Montaigne

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.

Simone de Beauvoir

It (marriage) happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel de Montaigne

It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Like dear St Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

Vincent van Gogh

In marriage a little licence, a little independence there must be between people living together day in and day out in the same house.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

G. K. Chesterton

The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.

Bertrand Russell

Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself.

Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

George Bernard Shaw

If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

G. K. Chesterton

The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?