M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life.”
“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”
“Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.”
“Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.”
“Marriage is the beginning of love for your spouse, not the result of it.”
“Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.”
“Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.”
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“Marriage is the cold potato of love.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.”
“Marriage is the dark side of the honeymoon”
“Marriage is the death of hope.”
Source: Three One-Act Plays: Riverside Drive Old Saybrook Central Park West
“Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.”
“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.”
Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland
“Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.”
“Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.”
“Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.”
Source: I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah
“Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.”
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“Marriage is the internationally recognised system of relationship recognition. It is the global language of love. When we were young, most of us dreamed of one day getting married. We didn't dream about having a civil partnership.”
“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.”
“Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.”
“Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.”
Source: The Devils
“Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.”
Source: The history man: a novel
“Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image.”
“Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere”
Source: The God of Animals: A Novel
“Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions . . . that is the secret of its popularity.”
Source: Man and Superman
“Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.”
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.”
“Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.”
“Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons
“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.”
Source: A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
“Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.”
“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”
“Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.”
“Marriage is the only game where the trapped animal has to buy the license.”
“Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It”
Source: Risk It, Be Different
“Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force.”
“Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.”
“Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.”
“Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.”
“Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.”
Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed
“Marriage is the real vocation crisis in the United States... We have a vocation crisis to life-long, life-giving, loving, faithful marriage. If we take care of that one, we'll have all the priests and nuns we'll need for the Church.”
“Marriage is the Rubik's Cube of the 21st Century - something young people are fascinated with but have no idea how to do.”
“Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius
“Marriage is the tomb of love.”
“Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”
“Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.”
Source: Complete Works
“Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.”