M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Marriage is a commitment, not a feeling.”
Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day
“Marriage is a commitment, so you always have to work at it.”
“Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.”
“Marriage is a cornerstone of family, and vital to social wellbeing.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.”
“Marriage is a daily lesson in recognizing our flaws.”
Source: Dark Rooms
“Marriage is a daring game. Staying single is missing out on all the pleasures of life. It's like trying to invent a one-sided coin.”
“Marriage is a desperate thing.”
Source: The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer
“Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.”
“Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Marriage is a duet or duel.”
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.”
“Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.”
Source: The Physiology of Marriage
“Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises.”
“Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.”
“Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.”
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
Source: The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
“Marriage is a form of prison, choose it wisely. A person for the most part never changes, the heart sees only what it wants to see. At times it is better to appear as nothing, see nothing, hear nothing, speak nothing to protect what matters most.”
Source: Yeo-na and the Fox god
“Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage.”
“Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.”
“Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.”
“Marriage is a game. They (the anxious and powerful) set the rules. We (the ordinary and subversive) bow obediently before those rules. And then we go home and do whatever the hell we want anyhow.”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Marriage is a garden that I'm constantly growing in.”
“Marriage is a garden that needs constant tending, and with care and respect, it will bloom beautifully.”
Source: The Last Snowfall
“Marriage is a garden that requires constant nurturing and care, but it can blossom into a beautiful and everlasting love with patience and dedication.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Marriage is a garden that requires two gardeners to care for it.”
“Marriage is a generosity contest, and she won.”
Source: Pravda
“Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.”
“Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.”
“Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.”
“Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“Marriage is a great institution.”
“marriage is a great strain upon love.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Marriage is a jewellery box which, by some mysterious opposite of alchemy, turns gold, silver and diamonds back into base metal, paste and quartz.”
Source: The Only Story
“Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.”
“Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].”
“Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.”
Source: Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People's Right to Marry
“Marriage is a leap of faith. You are each other's safety net.”
Source: The School of Essential Ingredients
“Marriage is a lifetime opportunity to have your spouse as your lifetime best friend.”
“Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.”
“Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church.”
“Marriage is a long-lasting friendship.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.”
“Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.”
“Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?”
“Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.”
Source: The province of the heart
“Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.”
“Marriage is a marriage- love or arranged. Both require the same level of commitment.”
Source: The Great Indian Dilemma