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Quotes About Marriage

Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
And my husband, why, hell hath no fury like a Baptist preacher.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Remy, my third husband, was very devoted. He was an older man. My life has been 101 Calamities with at least half of them in the marriage department, but finally I got lucky in love, with Remy Fairley. He at least had the decency to die and leave me the Equatorial... the nicest hotel for business men
~ Barbara Kingsolver
LISTEN, don't believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you get to marry the prince, you still wake up in the morning with your mouth tasting like drain cleaner and your hair all flat on one side.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
they'd shared an exuberance that eventually suffocated under tenure applications and mortgages. This was not a new story. Maybe Iano still had access to that kind of joy, but she'd surrendered it as her half of the marital bargain.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
This marriage has failed to warm her.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Daddy and I got married kind of accidentally.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A wife had greater wants, naturally, and could do nothing to help her own situation.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Seks adalah ongkos wanita atas pernikahan. Pernikahan adalah ongkos pria atas seks.
~ Barbara Pease
When I got home last night my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive. So I took her to a gas station and then the fight started.
~ Barbara Pease
When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in February of 1840, she had worn a white satin gown with a flounce of Honiton lace. In wearing white, she had started a tradition without knowing it. Forever after, brides would always be married in a white gown.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
Marry in haste, repent at leisure,' she said, remembering her brother's words of warning. Damn my stubbornness, she muttered.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?
~ Barry Eisler
And divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?
~ Barry Eisler
Marriage was a good cause, thought Ross. On a given day chances were one of you might be human.
~ Barry Hannah
As we see reversible marriages come apart, we may think to ourselves, how fortunate the couple was to have a flexible attitude toward marital commitment, given that it didn't work out. It might not occur to us that the flexible attitude might
~ Barry Schwartz
As a result, individuals with "nonreversible" marriages might be more satisfied than individuals with "reversible" ones. As we see reversible marriages come apart, we may think to ourselves, how fortunate the couple was to have a flexible attitude toward marital commitment, given that it didn't work out. It might not occur to us that the flexible attitude might have played a causal role in the marriage's failure.
~ Barry Schwartz
But if money doesn´t do it for people, what does? What seems to be the most important factor in providing happiness is close social relations. People who are married, who have good friends and who are close to their families are happier than those who are not. Being connected to other seems to be much more important to subjective well-being than being rich.
~ Barry Schwartz
Jesus's half brother James, who in this account is the son of Joseph from a previous marriage.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Jesus says, "You have heard it said, 'Whoever divorces his wife should give her a certificate of divorce' [a command found in Deut. 24:1], but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife for reason other than sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." It is hard to see how one can follow Moses' command to give a certificate of divorce, if in fact divorce is not an option.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
Christ, the Lamb, is to be united with his bride, the church of his followers, and there will be a celebration. That sounds festive. But who are the banqueters? And what is on the menu? Those who eat the marriage supper of the Lamb
~ Bart D. Ehrman
It seemed to him that if the wrong man stepped into the marriage-loop with a woman, it was a noose instead of a ring.
~ Stephen King
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
~ Stephen King