M Quotes
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“Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.”
“Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.”
“Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.”
“Marriage is this black box which is the key to all social and political problems; the family is the unit.”
“Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.”
“Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?”
“Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.”
“Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.”
Source: All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world
“Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.”
Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit
“Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.”
“Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages.”
“Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.”
“Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.”
“Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.”
“Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.”
Source: Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage
“Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom”
“Marriage is unbelievable, i couldn't be more in love.”
“Marriage is under attack from so many different areas. There should be benefits associated with married people. Life is unfair. Maybe you won't find the right person and you won't end up getting married. Oh, well, life is unfair. But married people, because of their capacity to have children, even if they're not going to end up having children, even if they're unable to bear children, marriage is an institution that is absolutely central to civilization.”
“marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.”
Source: The Last Man
“Marriage is very difficult. Marriage is like a five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.”
“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”
Source: The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland
“Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.”
Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir
“Marriage is what marriage is... It’s like going out and saying, ‘That tree is a car.’ Well, the tree’s not a car. A tree’s a tree. Marriage is marriage.”
“Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.”
Source: 300 Questions for a Vibrant Marriage
“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”
Source: Pleasure
“Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.”
“Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork.”
“Marriage is when women finally get what they want, and men wave the white flag, unaware of the firing squad that awaits them.”
“Marriage is when women finally get what they want, and men wave the white flag, unaware of the firing squad which awaits.”
“Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.”
“Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.”
“Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction.”
“Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good marriage, it changes, it evolves, but it does on getting better. I've seen it with my own mother and father. But a bad marriage can dissolve in a welter of resentment and acrimony. I've seen that, too, in my own miserable and disastrous attempt at making another person happy. And it's never one person's fault. It's the sum total of a thousand little irritations, disagreements, idiotic details that in a sound alliance would simply be disregarded, or forgotten in the healing act of making love. Divorce isn't a cure, it's a surgical operation, even if there are no children to consider.”
Source: Wild Mountain Thyme
“Marriage isn’t easy, Inara. It’s a messy, dirty, get-in-the-grime-and-dig kind of work. Sometimes it takes tearing down our carefully constructed walls in order to fall more in love.”
Source: By Blood & Blade
“Marriage isn't for everyone, however if you find the right co-pilot it's a great way to travel through life”
“Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?”
Source: Portrait in Death
“Marriage isn’t the proper state for any intelligent woman.”
Source: Delicious Death
“Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.”
“Marriage isn't a carnival ride.”
Source: Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl
“Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.”
“Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.”
“Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.”
“Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.”
“Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.”
“Marriage isn't just a choice. It's choosing the same person a million times.”
“Marriage isn't meant to make you happy - it's there because it gives you a life in which you can find happiness.”
“Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.”
“Marriage isn't supposed to make you happy -
it's supposed to make you married.”
“Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.”
Source: Marriage