Marriage Quotes - Page 34

Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of intimacy it is beautiful but if you are hoping that intimacy will arise out of marriage, you are hoping in vain. Of course, I know that many people, millions of people, have settled for marriage rather than for intimacy - because intimacy is growth and it is painful.

Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage can disappear. It is already an outmoded phenomenon, it has lived too long and it has created nothing but misery. Marriage should disappear and love should flower again. One should live with insecurity and freedom. That I call intelligence.

As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

We would have broken up except for the children. Who were the children? Well, she and I were.

Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

Married people should be best friends; no relationship on earth needs friendship as much as marriage

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.

All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.