Quotes About Marriage

The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.

I naively imagined that marriage could solve all the problems between us.

If one partner in a marriage whose self-esteem is deteriorating sees that the partner's self-esteem is growing, the response is sometimes anxiety and an attempt to sabotage the growth process.

She marvelled how she could ever have been wrought upon to marry him! She deemed it her crime most to be repented of, that she had ever endured and reciprocated the lukewarm grasp of his hand, and had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own. And it seemed a fouler offence committed by Roger Chillingworth than any which had since been done him, that, in the time when her heart knew no better, he had persuaded her to fancy herself happy by his side.

Ar trebui s? se cutremure acei b?rbaÈ›i care, luând o femeie de soÈ›ie, nu-i cuceresc întreaga pasiune din inim?!

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, as it was Roger Chillingworth's, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble imbue of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively.

Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low, bind them in marriage and then chastise them with menial service for life, or insults, or blows.

and her all-too-perfect husband, who Rowan suspected might actually be a bot.

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Some men are crazy, I said, moving toward the door. What do wou mean? I mean, some men are in love with their wives.

the next time you listen to Borodin remember his wife used his compositions to line the cat boxes with or to cover jars of sour milk;

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

When you marry the woman you also marry her entire family.

Because Wayna Qhapaq had not actually married Washkar's mother—the union was properly incestuous but not properly legitimate—the new Inka demanded that his mother participate ex post facto in a wedding ceremony with his father's mummy.

Steel tools, he told me, "had a major, transformative effect on all the trade and marriage relations in a whole area. They led to new trade networks, they led to new political alliances, they even led to war.

Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. t The husbands lived two hours away...

Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...

bit of pain, but the demon's arrogant words and threats stopped completely. Once the demon was thus bound, I began questioning Sue about her past. After a few minutes, she confessed that she was harboring deep anger toward her husband in response to his constant verbal abuse throughout their marriage. After again asking the Holy Spirit to guide us, I led Sue to picture herself in one of those abusive situations. I asked Sue to let herself feel again her hurt

the age in which the Romish Church had made marriage a legalized tyranny, and the laity, by a natural and pardonable revulsion, had exalted adultery into a virtue and a science? That all love was lust; that all women had their price; that profligacy, though an ecclesiastical sin, was so pardonable, if not necessary, as to be hardly a moral sin