M Quotes
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“Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Marriage is not the death of self. Without self you CANNOT have a successful Marriage.”
“Marriage is not the full-stop of friendship.”
“Marriage is nothing to underestimate. Success in marriage is about getting back up, again and again. Ultimately, the Shulamite had to write her own role in Solomon's drama. She made Solomon's problems her problems. For her, that was worth every bruise.
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Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“Marriage is obsolete and a trap.”
“Marriage is often a failed secret attempt to change someone.”
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Source: Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
“Marriage is one long sacrifice.”
Source: The Age of Innocence
“Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.”
“Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.”
“Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.”
“Marriage is one of the most important institutions we have. It binds families and society together. It is a building block that promotes stability. This Bill supports and cultivates marriage.”
“Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.”
“Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.”
“Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, and history of geography.”
Source: The Hand Of Ethelberta
“Marriage is only an accident of situation, situation an accident of history, history of geography,”
Source: The Hand Of Ethelberta
“Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.”
“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
“Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.”
“Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.”
“Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.”
“Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far-reaching effects...It affects not only the two people involved, but also their families and particularly their children and their children's children down through the many generations”
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
“Marriage is powerful because even if we have no one else, we still have a built-in support ‘network’ (because spouses fulfil so many different roles): someone who looks out for our health, happiness and survival!”
Source: Resilient Me: How to Worry Less and Achieve More
“Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.”
Source: Anarchism and Other Essays
“Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”
“Marriage is rarely bliss
But, surely it would be worse
As particles to pelt
At thousands of miles per sec
About a universe
In which a lover's kiss
Would either not be felt
Or break the loved one's neck.”
“Marriage is rather a silly habit.”
“Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.”
“Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.”
“Marriage is ridiculous.”
“Marriage is sanctified when it is cherished and honored in holiness. That union is not merely between husband and wife; it embraces a partnership with God.”
“Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.”
Source: Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State
“Marriage is situational; love is accidental.”
“Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.”
“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings.”
Source: Middlemarch
“Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than - than those we were married to, it would be no use. I mean, marriage drinks up all our power of giving or getting any blessedness in that sort of love. I know it may be very dear, but it murders our marriage, and then the marriage stays with us like a murder, and everything else is gone.”
“Marriage is socialism among two people.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.”
“Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give marital advice since I've only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.”
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.”
Source: The Names
“Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.”
“Marriage is such a mark of adulthood in my mind.”
“Marriage is such hard work. And it's full of rage and real human drama.”
“Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman.”
Source: Storm and Silence
“Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.”
Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others
“Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.”
“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
“Marriage is the aftermath of love.”
“Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.”
Source: All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world