Quotes About Marriage

As Pollock has astutely observed 'it is uncoerced consent which lies at the heart of our marital system not unconstrained choice'. 10

In 1790s ladies' debating societies were still deliberating 'In the Marriage State, which constitutes the greater Evil, Love without Money, or Money without Love?' 12

I'll bet their wives let their cats go out hunting at night like premonitions of future sons.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Bride, n. A woman with a fine prospect behind her.

Marriage, n. a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Evidently, it takes equally thin parts of kindness and sincerity to marry well.

Standing in front of the girl's house, Mama yelled up at the windows, "Katie Adams, you whore, give me my husband back!" When Miss Adams' neighbours complained about all the noise Mama was making, my father came down to quiet her. He kissed her until she cried, but didn't come home.

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking

There is no other alternative, Huzoor. It is the mandate of Mother Chandi that a married woman only can become a Bhairabi, and three days after marriage, a Bhairabi cannot touch her husband anymore. So it has become a practice to arrange for a poor man from a distant place to marry a girl, before she is installed as a Bhairabi, and the man leaves after three days with enough money as reward. No one would see him ever again." Jibananda laughed. "What are you talking about

Every marriage needs one skeptic to keep it safe. But a marriage of two skeptics will fail to thrive.

After Georgie, something had changed in our marriage, and there was nowhere solid to put the blame. We were almost forty, and simultaneously our marriage had - I don' know - thickened, agglutinated, become oatmeal-like. Differences between us that had once provided sparks now seemed inefficient. Was there love? Yes, yes - but at the margins. At the center, there was administration.

Where does a mistake begin?" his wife asks at the start of the book. "Did my mistake begin with the boat? Or my marriage itself?

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

Amelia said, "I think women—some women—regard matrimony as a highly honorable retreat from the possibility of failure in the larger world.

Every couple has the same five arguments in their lifetime, which is really just the one, over and over, until people die or divorce. What it is depends on who you are and what your parents did to you.

married. Edgar went back into the parlor

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death! A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany