M Quotes
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“Marriage, it's like roulette: Sometimes one wins, often one loses. Even if you're very in love, it can still go bad.”
Source: Embroideries
“Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.”
“Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.”
“Marriage, like infinity, offers no limit to your happiness.”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.”
“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”
Source: The Martian Chronicles
“Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.”
“Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.”
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of rampant ritualized group sex, mate-swapping, unrestrained casual affairs, and socially sanctioned sequential sex were all reported in cultures that anthropologists insist are monogamous simply because they've determined that something they call "marriage" takes place there. No wonder so many insist that marriage, monogamy, and the nuclear family are human universals. With such all-encompassing interpretations of the concepts, even the prairie vole, who "sleeps with anyone," would qualify.”
Source: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
“Marriage may appear as the culmination of adventure to some people, but to me, it is the dawn of an extraordinary odyssey. It is the genesis of an epic journey, where two souls unite to conquer life's grandest challenges hand in hand. So you know what? Embrace it as the thrilling prologue to a story filled with passion, devotion, and boundless love, where every day promises a new chapter of breathtaking adventures together.”
“Marriage may be polygamic, monogamic, polyandric, complex according to the Oneida pattern, or other, and is true marriage (I do not say perfect marriage) so long as it promotes the happiness of the persons married, and the procreation, support, and education of children, and so long as it is founded on the joint free contract of the persons married, and remains under the sanction of the organic society of which those persons are members.”
“Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.”
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
“Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.”
“Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may, in many ways, remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one guessed was even there. That is why the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant, but an expression of a basic fact in human experience that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God.”
“Marriage means leaving, cleaving, and becoming one—not about who moves first or who meets in the middle, but about joining hearts as one.”
“Marriage might be the most consuming and documented experience of one’s life but entire stretches of it unfold in a kind of blinkering displacing mist.”
Source: Byron and Shelley
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.”
“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
“Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.”
“Marriage never appealed to me, I have never lived with one person. Since I was 18, I've always preferred to live in a sort of community - A big house with my atelier and cats and friends, one with a man who was rather a lover and another who was rather a friend. And it has always worked”
“Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple.”
Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“Marriage of a man and a woman is clear in Biblical teaching in the Old Testament as well as in the New [Testament] teaching. Anyone who seeks to put that notion asunder is likewise running counter to what Jesus Himself said.”
“Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.”
“Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.”
Source: Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation
“Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.”
“Marriage partners are to serve each other. Elevate, help, teach, strengthen each other, but above all, serve. Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a
guest in the house, to be loved and respected - never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility
for the first time in my life.”
“Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.”
“Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.”
“Marriage produces two slaves : the male slave and the female slave, both of whom volunteered their freedom to remain slaves until granted freedom by either death or divorce.”
“Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.”
“Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.”
“Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.”
“Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.”
“Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.”
“Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.”
“Marriage requires us to exchange our selfish nature for Christ's servant-like nature.”
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”
“Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.”
Source: The Jane Austen Book Club
“Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere”
Source: The God of Animals
“Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.”
“Marriage should be about fun. It's about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun.”
Source: Swapping Lives
“Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most.”
“Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.”
“Marriage should be mutual benefit to behold one another through all the changing scenes of life; in trouble and in joy.”
“Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.”
Source: Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics
“Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.”
“Marriage should not be a goal; it should be a choice. One choice available out of many recognized as valid by society. But it isn't. Not yet. Right now, as far as society is concerned, you are married or you are not yet married. And as that notion becomes further codified our freedom to make other choices steadily erodes.”