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Quotes About Marriage

Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all the actions of our life, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
~ John Selden
Maid, widow, or wife.
~ John Skelton
I also find it interesting that a lot of people in their 30s are not married and don't have kids. There are a lot of people in this age bracket that are out there dating and trying to find love. And I never thought that at my age I would be.
~ John Stamos
The moral regeneration of mankind will only really commence, when the most fundamental of the social relations [marriage] is placed under the rule of equal justice, and when human beings learn to cultivate their strongest sympathy with an equal in rights and in cultivation.
~ John Stuart Mill
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
~ John Stuart Mill
Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
~ John Stuart Mill
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
~ John Stuart Mill
Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.
~ John Stuart Mill
Marriage is the only form of slavery permitted by law.
~ John Stuart Mill
One can, to an almost laughable degree, infer what a man's wife is like from his opinions about women in general.
~ John Stuart Mill
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
~ John Sununu
The researcher also discovered that as soon as a parishioner married a non-Pole (even if the spouse was Catholic) the rule was that "he must move out to a non-Polish Catholic parish.
~ John T. McGreevy
Then, for the first time in her married life, Leona addressed her husband. "Assassin!" she gasped, and fled.
~ John Taintor Foote
first marriage performed in the tower was in April 1932, when Doris Averell Welchangs, of Springfield, Massachusetts, married William Holmes, of Weehawken, New Jersey. They chose what they described as "the nearest place to heaven they could find
~ John Tauranac
There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.
~ John Thune
You say marriage," she muttered. "I say prison sentence." He pursed his lips. "So, instead of the fairy-tale existence every woman dreams of as a child, you're forced to live in a physically cold relationship with an abusive philanderer for at least another year?" "Way to sum it up." Maritza sent out a caustic laugh. "Do me a favor. Kill me now." The
~ John Tucker
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
~ John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
~ John Updike
I can't believe this beautiful woman who looks like a forest fairy could have married Sparerib.) Boggs rates her breasts as incredible. I must admit they are impressive.
~ John van de Ruit
No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
~ John Vanbrugh
If all my royal kindred Lay in my way unto this marriage, I'ld make them my low foot-steps
~ John Webster
The title of the elder branch falling at length to him, he obtained an important embassy, which served as an excuse for hastening the marriage
~ John William Polidori
would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her infancy;
~ John William Polidori
Within a month he knew that his marriage was a failure; within a year he stopped hoping that it would improve.
~ John Williams