“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.” MayChildrenPersonsLongPerfectMarriageSupportMembersMarriedRemainsComplexesPatternsContractsJointsSanctionsProcreationPerfect Marriage Author:William Batchelder Greene
“Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.” MarriageRemainsEnginesEfficientDisenchantment Author:Caitlin Flanagan
“An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.” IfsTryingFaithMarriageWifeIdealsRemainsFaithfulCharmingHusband And WifeFunny MarriageFaithful Wife Author:Sacha Guitry
“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.” ThinkingLooksSometimesStatesTurnsGirlWomenMarriageFourTwentiesRemainsEightWitHillsThirtyRejoiceEnteringRepentSummitEighteenPlungeSeventeenWedlock Author:Samuel Richardson
“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.” KindMayLittlesWholeLastsPassionLanguageCompanyTalkingMarriageSubjectsObjectsSucceedProveMethodRemainsAriseFormerContradictionSatireIntoleranceIndifferentContradictoryCoveringDefianceDialect Author:Sarah Fielding
“The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.” MenSeemsPerfectMarriageMen And WomenIdealsUltimateRemainsUnionsNailsIdealism Book:Women in Love Source: Women in Love
“President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.” PresidentMarriageRecordsCuttingJudgingDrugTaxesBenefitsRemainsCommittedActivistAmendmentsSeniorStoppingPresident BushPrescriptionsSecond AmendmentPrescription DrugsRedefining Author:Bill Shuster
“Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.” KnowsWorldPersonsDifferentWholeShowsFacesFormLove IsMarriageTeachKnow HowForeverNeededAspectMirrorsRemainsCommunicateWhole WorldRelateMaturityYour FaceMediocreClingingImmatureMiniaturesCommunes Author:Rajneesh
“Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.” MeanPersonsHas BeensTwoTogetherLostMarriageSecurityPaidRemainsUglyAriseTiedPermanenceLove MeansLost Everything Author:Rajneesh