M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Marriage should not be viewed as a therapeutic step to solve problems such as homosexual inclinations or practices.”
“Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.”
“Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.”
“Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.”
“Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.”
Source: Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families
“Marriage suddenly didn’t seem like enough to safeguard what she meant to me. Why wasn’t there something more binding than a mere piece of paper that gave me the right to call her my wife? Vows were a promise, but what I needed was a guarantee that every day of my life would have her in it. I wanted my heart to beat in rhythm with hers and stop when hers did. Inextricably entwined, so I would never live even a moment without her.”
Source: One with You
“Marriage takes perseverance and determination. There are always opportunities to walk away from marriage but I feel very strongly that you have a responsibility once you start a family.”
“Marriage takes work - it doesn't just happen.”
“Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.”
“Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. Reverence before one another, as before the willers of such a will – that I call marriage.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.”
“Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.”
Source: The History Man
“Marriage.
There ought to be a different word for it once you've been married for enough years. When you've long since passed the point where it stopped feeling like a choice. I no longer choose you every morning, that was a beautiful thing we said on our wedding day, I just can't imagine life without you now. We aren't freshly blooming flowers, we're two trees with intertwined roots, you've grown old within me.”
Source: The Winners
“Marriage thrives as a union of two givers, not a balance between a giver and a taker”
“Marriage to a very rich woman posed problems.”
“Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.”
“Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.”
“Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.”
“Marriage usually ends up turning one of the spouses into the other.”
“Marriage vows in an objectivist church would probably run along the lines of "Do you promise to attempt to dominate and subdue this woman until such time as you grow bored?" "Maybe." "Close enough. And do you promise to applaud this man`s production until such time as you find someone with a bigger ... corporation?" "Whatever." "By the power vested in me by having scammed you guys out of a marriage license fee, I now pronounce you man and appendage. May you be unencumbered by small persons."”
“marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.”
Source: Catherine-Paris
“Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.”
“Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.”
“Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.”
Source: The province of the heart
“Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.”
“Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted.”
“Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.”
“Marriage was explained to me as a bargain—be good, be quiet, be grateful. Then I saw what it would cost my face.”
Source: Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire
“Marriage was invented to make girls miserable. I will never get married again, not ever again.”
“Marriage was like death. You knew it'd happen eventually, but it wasn't something you dwelt on.”
Source: The Seventh Bride
“Marriage was not fundamentally emotional or romantic. Marital respect and love were the consequence of a shared life rather than the reason for sharing life. This point is worth emphasizing. In the first century, marriage was not about relationship. It was not even about the two people who were married. Marriage was instead about family, community, and economy. To be married was to participate in and contribute to communal life.”
Source: The Samaritan Woman's Story: Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo
“Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.”
“Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.”
Source: Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures
“Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”
Source: Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick
“Marriage was the duty of every princess and love was the cost.”
Source: Kingdom Cold
“Marriage will demand you deliberately choose the action of love, but the feelings of being in love can make us willing, eager, to commit to that sacrifice, even if one should be able to, with God’s help, make it without involving the original emotion. If you look at a man and you know that you would lay your life down for him, in whatever way it was required of you, that—that is the type of spark you need. It’s only a spark. That’s all being in love is—the beginning, the moment that ignites, the feeling. Everything else is hard work.”
Source: At Her Fingertips
“Marriage will not solve "aloneness."”
Source: Single, Married, Separated, and Life After Divorce: Expanded Edition
“Marriage will offer you a mirror to see the reflection of your weaknesses that are hidden in your soul and spirit. Common mistake is to be defensive when such weaknesses are revealed instead of acknowledging them and work on becoming better person in such areas.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.”
“Marriage without great sex is just an adjustment.”
“Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.
It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.”
Source: The Watch That Ends the Night
“Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.”
“Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Marriage would wreck us. Both of us...I'm sorry. It's just not right for me.'
'Don't you love me?'
'Of course I love you. But that doesn't mean I want to marry you.”
Source: Mrs. Hemingway
“Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.”
Source: Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights: A Novel
“Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!”
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.”
“Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.”
“Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.”
“Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.”