M Quotes
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“Marriage and parenting are the two strongest vows anyone will ever make. When you see these commitments being carelessly discarded, you can be certain that the ethics of that generation have been abandoned. ... What our society needs is a good dose of biblical ethic from God's people - the kind of ethic that requires us to keep our word no matter what the costs. Situational ethics have so shaped our society that even God's people have lost the concept of absolutes when it comes to keeping our word.”
“Marriage and sex and money the only living devils.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the kind of involvement by the people which a constitutional process would require.”
“Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.”
Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“Marriage, and women, were done differently in Rome, where female authority was a meaningless concept. (Similarly, for a man to be called effeminate was the worst insult.) The Roman definition of a good woman was an inconspicuous woman, something that defied Cleopatra's training. In Alexandria she needed to make a spectacle of herself. Here the mandate was reversed.”
Source: Cleopatra: A Life
“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”
Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.”
“Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it.”
Source: God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”
Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage
“Marriage brings face to face two people committed to God whose face is distinctively revealed in each as they see each other in the light of God, shining on each countenance. God brought them close to each other because each was the other's answer from God, to rescue them from being alone.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
“Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
“Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.”
“Marriage built on a foundation of lies will always leave both partners unhappy and unable to trust, for trust is the bedrock upon which love and happiness are constructed.”
Source: NIRVANA: RAGA • DVESHA • MOHA
“Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.”
Source: Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
“Marriage can be called a partnership. Have an agreement between two individuals. Today, marriages only happen on paper and not in the heart.”
“Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.”
“Marriage can be complicated.”
“Marriage can be hell.”
“Marriage can be made to work if both the partners can see beyond themselves and understand the limitations,needs and abilities of the other person and are willing to embrace the positive and negative aspects of each other in their understanding.
But it never happens that way. We expect others to understand and comply with us while we fail to do the same.
Thus marriage loses all it's sheen by the time the couple reaches middle age.”
Source: Delayed Monsoon
“Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.”
“Marriage can be whatever you define it as. For example, I don't feel like I need a piece of paper that says I own her and she owns me. I think signing a piece of paper doesn't mean anything in the eyes of God or in the eyes of people. The thing is, if you are together and you love each other and are good to each other, make babies and all that, for all intents and purposes you are married.”
“Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.”
“Marriage can bore you but there is a fortitude that comes from it, too. When you need to lean on it, you are so thankful that you can.”
“Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.”
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
“Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.”
Source: the female eunuch
“Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.”
“Marriage changes everything.”
“Marriage changes things because there's a lot more at stake. You can't get too toxic because you have to live together. No one can reach for the nuclear button too quickly.”
“Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.”
“Marriage converts a player into a polygamist.”
Source: Divided & Conquered
“Marriage couple represent one heavenly being.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.”
“Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.”
“Marriage did not just cage millions of people. It has also freed them from their obsession to be seen as worthy of being with by their partners.”
“Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next”
“Marriage does not so much bring you into confrontation with your spouse as confront you with yourself.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.”
“Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.”
Source: The Triumphant Marriage: 100 Extremely Successful Couples Reveal Their Secrets
“Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.”
Source: 'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse
“Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.”
“Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.”
Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.”
Source: The spectator
“Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.”
“Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?”
“Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.”
“Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.”
“Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.”