
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
A collection of quotes on the topic of women, partnership, marriage, love.
“The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.”
"Forbes" - Vol. 166, Page 156, de Bertie Charles Forbes - Forbes Inc., 2000
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.”
“Goodbye, Livia; remember our marriage!”
Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
Said to his wife Livia on his deathbed; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 99. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“I don't have the guts that Romeo did.”
on marriage
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
“Marriage is for noblewomen with nothing else to do.”
Source: Trickster's Choice
“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
On Mary Austin, a long time companion, and the inheritor of most of his estate, as quoted in "For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen" by Fred Hauptfuhrer, in People magazine (5 December 1977) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Group_-_12-05-1977_-_People
Quoted in Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 157
“Marriage is a wonderful institution… but who wants to live in an institution?”
Cate Blanchett: 'Getting Married Is Insanity', People Magazine, 12 January 2007 http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20008317,00.html,
Interview in New Statesman & Society (21 April 1995), discussing her books Intercourse and Right Wing Women.
"Marriage and Love" in Anarchism and Other Essays (1911)
Context: Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130
1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)
Context: One of the most horrible things about commercialism is the way in which it poisons the relations of men and women. The evils of prostitution are generally recognized, but, great as they are, the effect of economic conditions on marriage seems to me even worse. There is not infrequently, in marriage, a suggestion of purchase, of acquiring a woman on condition of keeping her in a certain standard of material comfort. Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from. The whole basis of these evils is economic. Economic causes make marriage a matter of bargain and contract, in which affection is quite secondary, and its absence constitutes no recognized reason for liberation. Marriage should be a free, spontaneous meeting of mutual instinct, filled with happiness not unmixed with a feeling akin to awe: it should involve that degree of respect of each for the other that makes even the most trifling interference with liberty an utter impossibility, and a common life enforced by one against the will of the other an unthinkable thing of deep horror.
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.”
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”
Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
Anderson, Indiana http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/anderson-indiana-nov1695.html (November 16, 1995)
In Concert
2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
Sharon Turner (1828) The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
2015, Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality (June 2015)
The Mission of the Clan Messiah in the Revolutionary Era after the Coming of Heaven http://www.unification.net/2006/20060601_1.html (2006-06-01)
Letter to Ottoline Morrell, January 30, 1916
1910s
London Match (London: Hutchinson, 1985) p. 18
“A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.”
Second Marriages
A Guide to Men (1922)
Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World, al-islam.org http://www.al-islam.org/sexualethics/,
PDF format http://www.iranchamber.com/personalities/mmotahari/works/sexual_ethics_islam_and_western_world.pdf
Source: Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World, Chapter 1, Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World, Baztab News, 2007/08/10, 2007-08-19 http://en.baztab.com/content/?cid=4132,
“However the marriage is there severe.”
Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
Start of chapter 18
This is in the sense that the matrimonial bond was strictly observed by the Germanic peoples, this being compared favorably against licentiousness in Rome. Tacitus appears to hold the fairly strict monogamy (with some exceptions among nobles who marry again) between Germanic husbands and wives, and the chastity among the unmarried to be worthy of the highest praise. (Ch. 18).
Germania (98)
2017, Farewell Address (January 2017)
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State http://www.mises.org/etexts/intellectuals.asp (21 July 2006)
Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.
Travels in Asia and Africa (Rehalã of Ibn Battûta)
Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), p. 193
Source: Woman, Church and State (1893), p. 301
"Pope Francis declares union between man and woman 'at root of marriage' in blow to gay rights", by Adam Withnall, The Independent (18 November 2014) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-francis-declares-union-between-man-and-woman-at-root-of-marriage-in-blow-to-gay-rights-9867561.html
2010s, 2014
“Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.”
Unidentified fragment 651.
Le divorce est probablement de la même date à peu près que le mariage. Je crois pourtant que le mariage est de quelques semaines plus ancien.
"Divorce" (1771)
Citas, Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770–1774)
Chapter VIII http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abeslmca5t.html
1830s, An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833)
Our Sexual Ethics http://www.utilitarian.org/texts/oursexethics.html (1936)
1930s
Alison Weir (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 0802136834, p. 213.
Vol. I, Ch. 13: Of the King who did according to his will, and magnified himself above every God, and honored Mahuzzims, and regarded not the desire of women
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
“Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.”
L'adultère introduit l'esprit dans la lettre que bien souvent le mariage eût laissée morte.
In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. V: The Captive (1923)
Tried As By Fire, or The True and The False, Socially, speech, 1874, quoted in Gabriel, Mary, Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored (Chapel Hill, N.Car.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st ed. 1998 ISBN 1-56512-132-5, p. 222 & n. [20] (each ellipsis or set of suspension points so in original) (author Mary Gabriel journalist, Reuters News Service), in turn as reprinted in Stern, Madeleine B., ed., The Victoria Woodhull Reader (Weston, Mass.: M&S Press, 1974).
Just look at the animal kingdom. The simple and easiest thing is always the most likely thing to occur. It's the exception - the long term commitment - that needs explanation."
Concepts
"Sex in Education", p. 119-120
1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932)
In reaction to statements by Maurice O'Connor Drury who expressed disapproval of depictions of an ancient Egyptian god with an erect phallus, in "Conversations with Wittgenstein" as quoted in Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism (1997) by Richard Thomas Eldridge, p. 130
Attributed from posthumous publications
"The Brazil of North America" https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/the-brazil-of-north-america/ (July 18, 2014), Chronicles
2010s
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), On the musicians of the Ospedale della Pieta (book VII)
Letter to Colette, August 10, 1918
1910s
Brief biography http://www.avanta.net/writings/biography/biography.html at Avanta.net (1999)
“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
Attributed in Henry Louis Mencken (1942), A New Dictionary of Quotations
Misattributed
“Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous.”
De toutes les choses sérieuses, le mariage étant la plus bouffonne.
Act I, scene ix
The Marriage of Figaro (1778)
2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)
On comparison with her character and personal life http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/tv-news/i-have-never-been-associated-the-word-struggle-life-sukirti-kandpal-042/
The Estate of Marriage, 1522, translated by Walther I. Brandt, from Luther's Works, Vol. 45, pp. 32-34); as quoted in Martin Luther: Execute Adulterers, Witches, Frigid Wives, & Prostitutes, Pagadian Diocese http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2017/10/30/martin-luther-execute-adulterers-witches-frigid-wives-prostitutes/, October 26, 2017, Dave Armstrong
2013, Fifth State of the Union Address (February 2013)