M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.”
Source: The Miller of Old Church
“Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.”
“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations
“Marriage is no barometer of mental health”
Source: God Bless Cambodia
“Marriage is no substitute for political experience.”
“Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.”
“Marriage is not a competition. Marriage is completion of two souls.”
Source: Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy
“Marriage is not a frozen tableau, however. It is always moving, even if the participants don’t sense its motion.”
Source: White Trash and Recycled Nightmares
“Marriage is not a game for the young.”
“Marriage is not
a house or even a tent
it is before that, and colder:
the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert
the unpainted stairs
at the back where we squat
outside, eating popcorn
the edge of the receding glacier
where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far
we are learning to make fire”
“Marriage is not a love affair, it's a mutual agreement."
Marriage as a love affair:
I did that or did not do that just because I love you.
Marriage as a mutual agreement:
I did that or did not do that because I understand it can either strengthen or weaken what we are building.”
“Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much.”
“Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”
“Marriage is not a priority for me. I'm not saying I'll never do it. It's just not where we are as a family . . . I'll be at home with my man, having a perfectly loving time, and I'll see all these comments on some site about how wrong I am for not being married. I don't feel less loved or less loving because I'm not married.”
“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
“Marriage is not a promise.”
“Marriage is not a reform school.”
Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually
“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
“Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.”
Source: Expository Lectures on St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians
“Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.”
“Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.”
“Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.”
Source: This Momentary Marriage
“Marriage is not an accomplishment; but true love, trust and total happiness within marriage is a great accomplishment.”
“Marriage is not an act of services. It is a comfort man or woman seeks for himself or herself.”
“Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.”
“Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.”
Source: Pilgrimage
“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bumps up against the person in love and in rejection, and in this fashion learns to know oneself, the world, good and evil, the heights and the depths.”
“Marriage is not common in Sweden.”
“Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.”
“Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to the equality of men and women and their relationship in marriage is totally different than redefining marriage. Here is the overreach of the judiciary. This, if allowed to stand without any congressional approval, without any kind of enabling legislation, is what Jefferson warned us about. That's judicial tyranny.”
“Marriage is not easy, I thought to myself. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s two different people, from two different backgrounds, trying to build a life together for better or worse. It’s something you have to work at every single day. There are going to be hard times and those are the times you are supposed to fight like hell.”
Source: Tear Stained Beaches
“Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.”
Source: The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales
“Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'.”
“Marriage is not just about finances, social standing or even love. It's two people banding together to become something greater than they can be alone.”
“Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family.”
“Marriage is not just about two individuals uniting and living together lawfully; it is about forming a bond between two families. Alongside a good-natured bride and groom, it is equally important to have kind-hearted, supportive, and understanding families. Only then can a marriage truly lead to a happy and harmonious life.”
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
“Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.”
“Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It’s mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It’s about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.”
Source: This Momentary Marriage
“Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church”
Source: This Momentary Marriage
“Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically; it is mainly about displaying the covenant-keepin g love between Christ and his church. Knowing Christ is more important than making a living. Treasuring Christ is more important than bearing children. Being united to Christ by faith is a greater source of marital success than perfect sex and double-income prosperity.”
“Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.”
“Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.”
“Marriage is not only a package of benefits - it's a status.”
“Marriage is not ours to reinvent—it is God’s design, a covenant of love that reflects Christ and His bride.”
Source: Love Defined: A description of true submission
“Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.”
“Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.”
“Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.”