MARRIAGE QUOTES XV

quotations about marriage

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

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband.

LAUREN BACALL

How to Marry a Millionaire

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Marriage problems are relationship problems, they are the result of how two people interact with each other. You may abandon a troubled marriage, but you will still bring the way you interact with others along with you.

MARK GUNGOR

Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage

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Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord."

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Marriage Ring

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What's Wrong with the World

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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull Play.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

The Old Bachelor

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Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out.

FAY WELDON

The Spa

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The marriage tie becomes possessed of a history and takes to itself traditions. This history and these traditions form a great fund, to which changing conditions and growing imagination constantly add. And the traditions, more especially, bear heavily upon the individual, overmastering his natural expression of the love instinct and forcing him to an artificial expression of that love instinct. He loves, not as his savage forbears loved, but as his group loves.

JACK LONDON

The Kempton-Wace Letters

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Society is built on marriage ... marriage and its consequences.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

OSCAR WILDE

A Woman of No Importance

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Matrimony is an engagement which must last the life of one of the parties, and there is no retracting ... therefore, to avoid all the horror of a repentance that comes too late, men should thoroughly know the real causes that induce them to take so important a step, before they venture upon it; do they stand in need of a wife, an heiress, or a nurse; is it their passions, their wants, or their infirmities, that solicit them to wed?

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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Marriages are always moving from one season to another. Sometimes we find ourselves in winter--discouraged, detached, and dissatisfied; other times we experience springtime, with its openness, hope, and anticipation. On still other occasions we bask in the warmth of summer--comfortable, relaxed, enjoying life. And then comes fall with its uncertainty, negligence, and apprehension. The cycle repeats itself many times throughout the life of a marriage, just as the seasons repeat themselves in nature.

GARY D. CHAPMAN

note to readers, Summer Breeze

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Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

attributed, Life of Samuel Johnson

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When a Man has married a wife
He finds out whether
Her knees & elbows are only
glued together.

WILLIAM BLAKE

Poems from Blake's Notebook


The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

"Alexander Lowen: An Energetic Man", Journal of Counseling & Development, September/October 1992

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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Middlesex

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

JOHN UPDIKE

foreword, Too Far To Go

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Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

A Dream Play

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