A Quotes
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“A marriage engagement is based on two people only, others are to bless and congratulate them; but maintaining that engagement is the responsibility of each of the two!”
Source: The Inspirer, Book of Quotes
“A marriage fairytale : she doesn't want to and he can't.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy.”
Source: Moments of Grace for a Woman's Heart
“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.”
Source: Born in Fire
“A marriage is a partnership.”
“A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.”
“A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one's priorities.”
“A marriage is a struggle for a naked life.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“A marriage is a struggle for bare naked life.”
Source: Yet Another New Land
“A marriage is a very secret place.”
Source: The Black Prince
“A marriage is a way of accepting love and commitment of a man and woman in front of God, before moving to a new life.”
Source: Life of Love
“A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.”
Source: After the Storm
“A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.”
Source: The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)
“A marriage is less about how many people are in it and more about how happy you are.”
Source: This Is Not the End
“A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.”
“A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
“A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.”
“A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.”
“A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.”
Source: Gaudy Night
“A marriage, or a relationship for that matter, that goes on an autopilot mode will land anywhere, since it has a life and mind of its own and not the owners.”
“A marriage relationship moves from the unknown to the known, desiring personal revealing to encourage continued growth in closeness.”
Source: Searching Below the Surface: A Deeper Look at Covenant and Contract
“A marriage should be about friendship and companionship, not about sex.”
Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies
“A marriage should start with a strong foundation and a gift to symbolize his commitment.”
Source: Carved in Stone
“A marriage strangles and dies on apathy. Passion keeps it alive.”
Source: Stolen Heir
“A marriage was like a house under constant construction, each year seeing the completion of new rooms. A first-year marriage was a cottage; one that had gone on for twenty-seven years was a huge and rambling mansion. There were bound to be crannies and storage spaces, most of them dusty and abandoned, some containing a few unpleasant relics you would just as soon you hadn't found. But that was no biggie. You either threw those relics out or took them to Goodwill.”
Source: A Good Marriage
“A marriage which does not constantly crucify its own selfishness and self-sufficiency, which does not ‘die to itself’ that it may point beyond itself, is not a Christian marriage. The real sin of marriage today is not adultery or lack of ‘adjustment’ or ‘mental cruelty.’ It is the idolization of the family itself, the refusal to understand marriage as directed toward the Kingdom of God. This is expressed in the sentiment that one would ‘do anything’ for his family, even steal. The family has here ceased to be for the glory of God; it has ceased to be a sacramental entrance into his presence. It is not the lack of respect for the family, it is the idolization of the family that breaks the modern family so easily, making divorce its almost natural shadow. It is the identification of marriage with happiness and the refusal to accept the cross in it. In a Christian marriage, in fact, three are married; and the united loyalty of the two toward the third, who is God, keeps the two in an active unity with each other as well as with God. Yet it is the presence of God which is the death of the marriage as something only ‘natural.’ It is the cross of Christ that brings the self-sufficiency of nature to its end. But ‘by the cross, joy entered the whole world.’ Its presence is thus the real joy of marriage. It is the joyful certitude that the marriage vow, in the perspective of the eternal Kingdom, is not taken ‘until death parts,’ but until death unites us completely.”
Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
“A marriage without children is the world without the sun.”
“A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.”
“A marriage without friendship is like a locked prison with lost keys.”
“A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.”
“A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869
“A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.”
“A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.”
“A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.”
Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed
“A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful.”
Source: The Book of Guys: Stories
“A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.”
“A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures.”
“A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.”
“A married man is a preoccupied man.”
Source: God's Daughter
“A married man is just a single man who couldn’t say no.”
Source: You Can't Google Life
“A married man turns his staffe into a stake.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“A married man with a family will do anything for money.”
“A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.”
“A married philosopher belongs to comedy.”
Source: Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings
“A married philosopher is a comic character.”
“A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally competent to make reasonably, as has a married man, or any other man.”
Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.”
“A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne.”
“A married woman, the safest place for any woman to be is at home with her husband.”