Quotes about marriage
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1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Marriage
“Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
Curve Magazine Interview (Summer 2009) http://www.curvemag.com/Curve-Magazine/Web-Articles-2008/Goodbye-to-Romance/.
As quoted in "Barack Obama Answers Your Questions About Gay Marriage, Paying For College, More" at MTV News (1 November 2008) http://www.mtv.com/news/1598407/barack-obama-answers-your-questions-about-gay-marriage-paying-for-college-more/
2008
Quotes By Salman
Source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006795/bio#quotes
“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes”
Letter to Michael Tolkien (March 1941)
Context: Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 19.
Vol. I, Ch. 12: Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Context: Hitherto the Roman Empire continued entire; and under this dominion, the little horn of the He-Goat continued mighty, but not by his own power. But now, by the building of Constantinople, and endowing it with a Senate and other like privileges with Rome; and by the division of the Roman Empire into the two Empires of the Greeks and Latins, headed by those two cities; a new scene of things commences, in which which a King, the Empire of the Greeks, doth according to his will, and, by setting his own laws above the laws of God, exalts and magnifies himself above every God, and speaks marvelous things against the God of Gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished.—Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the lawful desire of women in matrimony, nor any God, but shall magnify himself above all. And in his seat he shall honor Mahuzzims, that is, strong guardians, the souls of the dead; even with a God whom his fathers knew not shall he honor them, in their Temples, with gold and silver, and with precious stones and valuable things. All which relates to the overspreading of the Greek Empire with Monks and Nuns, who placed holiness in abstinence from marriage; and to the invocation of saints and veneration of their relics, and such like superstitions, which these men introduced in the fourth and fifth centuries. And at the time of the end the King of the South, or the Empire of the Saracens, shall push at him; and the King of the North, or Empire of the Turks, shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots and with horsemen, and with many ships; and be shall enter into the countries of the Greeks, and shall overflow and pass over. He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown; but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom and Moab, and the chief of the children Ammon: that is, those to whom his Caravans pay tribute. He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape; but he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Lybians and Ethiopians shall be at his steps. All these nations compose the Empire of the Turks, and therefore this Empire is here to be understood by the King of the North. They compose also the body of the He-Goat; and therefore the Goat still reigns in his last horn, but not by his own power.
“Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting?”
2018
Context: Here's the advice I give everyone about marriage — is she someone you find interesting? … You will spend more time with this person than anyone else for the rest of your life, and there is nothing more important than always wanting to hear what she has to say about things … Does she make you laugh? And I don’t know if you want kids, but if you do, do you think she will be a good mom? Life is long. These are the things that really matter over the long term.
[Barr, Michael D., Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1999, 29 2, 147, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5058/d1bc358fe18944e8aaa399e422f74d0fed75.pdf]
1980s
Sacro autem baptismate ablutis, matrimonium eiusmodi praeditum est dignitate, ut gratiae sacramentale signum exsistat, cum Christi et Ecclesiae coniunctionem designet.
HUMANAE VITAE
Official Vatican translation.
28 January 1933, quoted in Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever? (Pakistan Declaration)
Ideology of Pakistan
“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”
“I'm not the marrying kind -"
St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
Source: Opium: The Diary of His Cure
“A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.”
Source: Waiting and Dating
Source: 20th Century Ghosts
“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Source: Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
“It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.”
Book III, Ch. 5
Attributed
Source: The Complete Essays
“I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
“I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.”
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”
“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”
Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)
Source: Talk is Cheap: Volume 1
Travis Parker, Chapter 16, p. 203
Variant: Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Source: The Red Necklace
Source: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
“Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.”
Source: The Mummy Case
“Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.”
Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Dates to 1899, American humor origin, originally featuring a woman upset by a man's cigar smoking. Cigar often removed in later versions, coffee added in 1900. Incorrectly attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).
See various early citations and references to refutations at “If you were my husband, I’d poison your coffee” (Nancy Astor to Churchill?) http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/if_you_were_my_husband_id_poison_your_coffee_nancy_astor_to_churchill, Barry Popik, The Big Apple,' February 09, 2009
Early examples include 19 November 1899, Gazette-Telegraph (CO), "Tales of the Town," p. 7, and early attributions are to American humorists Marshall P. Wilder and De Wolf Hopper.
Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations, by Richard Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 578.
The Yale Book of Quotations, edited by Fred R. Shapiro, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2006, p. 155.
George Thayer, The Washington Post (April 27, 1971), p. B6.
Misattributed
Variant: Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.
Winston Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
“Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle”
Source: Mrs. Miracle
Source: Doctor Sally
“Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
Source: Diamonds Are Forever
“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
Source: Clockwork Prince
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
Source: I Capture the Castle
“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“Marriage… is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)”
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: The Year of Magical Thinking
Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
“Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.”
Source: The Small Bachelor
Source: Tempt Me at Twilight
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
Source: Bridget Jones's Diary
“I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.”
