M Quotes
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“Marriage is a matter for common sense."
"But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?"
"No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.”
Source: An Ideal Husband
“Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.”
“Marriage is a matter of more worth
Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.”
“Marriage is a mutual faithful friendship”
“Marriage is a mutual friendship.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Marriage is a mysterious institution, even from the inside.
Sometimes it can feel like a softly furnished minimum-security prison.
That was my experience anyway.”
Source: Here One Moment
“Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.”
“Marriage is a necessary evil”
“Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.”
“Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.”
“Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture.”
Source: To Marry a Prince
“Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.”
“Marriage is a plastic flower - marriage is an institution. And who wants to live in an institution?”
“Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening it is gone. Nobody can say when it will disappear, when the petals will start falling. Just a strong wind and it is no more, just a strong sun and it is no more. But the plastic flower will be there; come rain, come sun, come anything, the plastic flower will be there. In fact, plastic is the only permanent thing in the world.”
“Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?”
Source: Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On
“Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.”
“Marriage is a public declaration of a man and a woman that they have formed a secret alliance, with the intention to belong to, and share with each other, a mystical estate; mystical exactly in the sense that the real experience cannot be communicated to others, nor explained even to oneself on rational grounds.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings
“Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.”
“Marriage is a real and good desire, and it remains one of my own. But it is neither the capstone of maturity nor the scope of God’s purposes for his followers.”
Source: A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World
“Marriage is a really scary thing. I'm excited about it. I know it's not a mistake, it's the absolute right thing to do. I'm really happy about it. I really, really love my fiancee. We're good friends and I think it's going to work. But that's just the point - it's going to take work. It does make me feel vulnerable to be like, wow, I'm committed to this person for the rest of my life.”
“Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?”
“Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.”
“Marriage is a religious and state issue.”
“Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.”
“Marriage is a school of learning.”
“Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.”
“Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.”
Source: The hills of Beverly
“Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little interests and stewing in its own little privacy - it's the most repulsive thing in the world. One's got to get rid of the exclusiveness of married love.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.”
“Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.”
“Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.”
“Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.”
“Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.”
“Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.”
“Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment.”
“Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.”
Source: The Memoirs of an Amnesiac
“Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.”
“Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.”
“Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.”
“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.”
“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”
“Marriage is a very long process.”
“Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.”
“Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It's meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don't cross the lines drawn from them. At the same time, marriage is an intensely private affair, no outsider will know the state of some one else's marriage. It's a closed room, a locked room...”
“Marriage is a way to amplify enjoyment in life.”
Source: sciVive
“Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of intimacy it is beautiful but if you are hoping that intimacy will arise out of marriage, you are hoping in vain. Of course, I know that many people, millions of people, have settled for marriage rather than for intimacy - because intimacy is growth and it is painful.”
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?”