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Marriage Quotes



"And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore."


"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."



"The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly."


"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."


"Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us."


"Conflicting egos destroy many relationships. Lasting, stable marriages are a true treasure because they demand that both parties adjust to the constant cellular flux of their partner as they metaphase through changing seasons of life."


"Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?"


"I came into marriage with love but when I got there she refused the dictatorship and fled away, I and my wife are looking for her. Anyone who finds her please contact us. We swear not to harm her again."


"To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a 'righteous' form of prostitution."


"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"


"You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying."



"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."


"Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction."


"There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."


"Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds."


"Marriage is the only Institution With One Access: Entrance Only, No Exit, No Outing Option So Look Well Before You Dive Into It."


"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."


"You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person."


"Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage."


"Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back of her skull. I tried to read her thoughts. For once I didn't feel like I was staring into the sun. I'm rising to my wife's level of madness. Because I can feel her changing me again: I was a callow boy, and then a man, good and bad. Now at last I'm the hero. I am the one to root for in the never-ending war story of our marriage. It's a story I can live with. Hell, at this point, I can't imagine my story without Amy. She is my forever antagonist.We are one long frightening climax."


"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent."


"You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her."


"Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated. It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation-a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create."


"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."


"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory."


"If you don't respect the other person, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you don't know how to compromise, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. If you can't talk openly about what goes on between you, you're gonna have a lot of trouble. And if you have different set of values in life, you're gonna have a lot of trouble.Your values must be alike. And the biggest of those values... the belief in the importance of your marriage."


"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."
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