Marriage Quotes

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Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Somebody has said, Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Marriage as a community of interests unfailingly means the degradation of the interested parties, and it is the perfidy of the world's arrangements that no one, even if aware of it, can escape such degradation. The idea might therefore be entertained that marriage without ignominy is a possibility reserved for those spared the pursuit of interests, for the rich. But the possibility is purely formal, for the privileged are precisely those in whom the pursuit of interests has become second-nature—they would not otherwise uphold privilege.

Theodor W. Adorno

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

George Washington

An outlaw by profession, an inlaw by marriage. His tail lights were deteriorating, but his collection of porcelain remained a constant companion.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Benjamin Franklin

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Henry David Thoreau

A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Bertrand Russell

If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

George Bernard Shaw

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three.

Alexandre Dumas

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.

Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

Henry David Thoreau

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

William Faulkner

The curse of marriage
That we can call these delicate creatures ours
And not their appetites!

William Shakespeare