MARRIAGE QUOTES VII

quotations about marriage

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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A woman will always cherish the memory of the man who wanted to marry her. A man, of the woman who he didn't.

GRENVILLE KLEISER

Dictionary of Proverbs

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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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A man in love is incomplete until he has married--then he's finished.

ZSA ZSA GABOR

Newsweek, March 28, 1960

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Marriage is often like Procrustes' famous code of hospitality. Procrustes built a bed for his guests the same way we build a marriage: according to his own expectations. Shorter visitors were stretched to fit; taller folks were surgically shortened. Likewise, your spouse will try to change you into what he or she thinks you should be, just as you have fine-tuning in mind for your partner.... Marriage is the procrustean bed in which we can develop and enhance our psychological and ethical integrity. It can be the cradle of adult development.

DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH

Passionate Marriage

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

AESCHYLUS

Prometheus Bound

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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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The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.

GROUCHO MARX

attributed, Wise Words and Quotes

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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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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all.

QUEEN VICTORIA

letter to her daughter, May 3, 1858


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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According to a new survey, people who get divorced die early. People who stay married live longer. The difference is they just wish they were dead.

DAVID LETTERMAN

Late Show with David Letterman, January 11, 2012

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If sex is supposed to be satisfying and anxiety-free once we are safely ensconced in marriage, how come that's when many of us stop wanting it?

DAVID MORRIS SCHNARCH

Passionate Marriage

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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

CHAMFORT

The Cynic's Breviary

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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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A single life is doubtless preferable to a married one, where prudence and affection do not accompany the choice; but where they do, there is no terrestrial happiness equal to the married state.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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We could probably date the conception of "modern" marriage at around 1850, with its gestation through the Gilded Age, and its birth about 1920. Not coincidentally, serenading that pregnancy and birth has been a steadily rising chorus of outcries about the death of marriage and the family. By the 1920s every third magazine article seemed to be titled "Will Modern Marriage Survive?" Of course, reports of marriage's death have been greatly exaggerated: even laying aside the peculiar 1950s (which none of "the family" doomsayers foresaw), marriage remains outrageously popular, divorce statistics and all.

E. J. GRAFF

What is Marriage for?

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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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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