M Quotes
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“Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law - end of story.”
“Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born?”
“Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.”
“Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.”
“Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.”
Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort
“Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.”
“Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.”
“Marriage gives us the security of tying another person to us-and us to them. But marriage itself also serves as a general wall of protection from illness in ways that cohabitation does not.”
Source: The Ring Makes All the Difference
“Marriage gives you a new respect for a person.”
“Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.”
“Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses”
“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”
“Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The woman has her own way: feminine, softer, a little more civilized, more subdued. But the situation is the same. Now psychologists are talking about marriage as an intimate enmity. And that's what it has proved to be. Two enemies are living together pretending to be in love, expecting the other to give love; and the same is being expected by the other. Nobody is ready to give - nobody has it. How can you give love if you don't have it?”
“Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to come nearer to each other; and to feel a more complete fellowship. I do not feel that it in any way fetters or narrows my world: - it seems rather to enlarge it.”
Source: Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899
“Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.”
“Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.”
Source: The Tunnel of Love: A Novel
“Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.”
“Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.”
“Marriage has just never interested me.”
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
“Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. (from "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“Marriage has the power to reshape our lives, for better or worse, for the best or into the routine of boredom, depending on how we nurture and navigate the journey together.”
Source: NIRVANA: RAGA • DVESHA • MOHA
“Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.”
Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God
“Marriage has to do with being and becoming good and faithful companions, where we learn o align ourselves and become one in purpose as e strive together tot achieve our most important life goals.”
Source: Practical Marriage: Your Guide to Love, Differences, and Conflict
“Marriage has to do with being and becoming good and faithful companions, where we learn to align ourselves and become one in purpose as we strive together to achieve our most important life goals.”
Source: Practical Marriage: Your Guide to Love, Differences, and Conflict
“Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.”
Source: The Essays
“Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!”
“Marriage hath in it less of beauty but more of safety, than the single life; it hath more care, but less danger, it is more merry, and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows, and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but it is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons
“Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.”
“Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.”
Source: Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
“Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.”
“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. During their understandably temporary association, the 'married' couple will typically consume a large quantity of merchandise and a large portion of each other.
The modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming. Nothing productive is done there. Such work as is done there is done at the expense of the resident couple or family, and to the profit of suppliers of energy and household technology. For entertainment, the inmates consume television or purchase other consumable diversion elsewhere.
There are, however, still some married couples who understand themselves as belonging to their marriage, to each other, and to their children. What they have they have in common, and so, to them, helping each other does not seem merely to damage their ability to compete against each other. To them, 'mine' is not so powerful or necessary a pronoun as 'ours.'
This sort of marriage usually has at its heart a household that is to some extent productive. The couple, that is, makes around itself a household economy that involves the work of both wife and husband, that gives them a measure of economic independence and self-employment, a measure of freedom, as well as a common ground and a common satisfaction.
(From "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“Marriage, in whatever sense, implies and endorses used and expired doctrine and context of bachelor and bachelorette.”
“Marriage includes a spouse, and often children. But the goal, center, and purpose of marriage is not self, spouse, or children. The ultimate goal of marriage and family is the glory of God. Only when marriage and family exist for God's glory - and not to serve as replacement idols - are we able to truly love and be loved. Remember, neither your child nor your husband (or wife) should be who you worship, but instead who you worship with.”
Source: Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
“Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.”
“Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.”
“Marriage is a big deal, but who's to say I'm not going to pull a Vegas and get married to see what it's like for a minute?”
“Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.”
“Marriage is a Bond so Strong, yet it gets weak if the knitters (the couples) do not weave the threads carefully, lovingly.”
Source: Separated!: Making a Decision is Hard... Sticking on it is Harder
“Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.”
“Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.”
“Marriage is a call to die [to self]... Christian marriage vows are the inception of a lifelong practice of death, of giving over not only all you have, but all you are. Is this a grim gallows call? Not at all! It is no more grim than dying to self and following Christ. In fact, those who lovingly die for their [spouses] are those who know the most joy, have the most fulfilling marriages, and experience the most love.”
“Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.”
“Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.”
“Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city.”
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.”
“Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.”