Quotes About Marriage

Aeriel gazed at Irrylath: husband to her, but only in name. She dared touch him only when he slept.

We live in an era of horseless carriages, wireless telegraphy, husbandless wives and wifeless husbands. I have hit upon a formula which I am tempted to utilize hereafter when I meet husbandless women. When they are introduced I shall ask: - Shaken, Or taken? signifying in the first instance a loss by way of Nevada, or, in the second, through the pearlier gates of that Paradise which is the hope of us all.

On harvinaisempaa kuin uskoisikaan, että mies menee naimisiin Toisen naisen kanssa - edes vaimon kuoltua. Jos avioliitto on ollut hyvä, mies yhdistää Toisen naisen syyllisyydentunteisiinsa. Jos avioliitto on ollut huono, hän yhdistää Toisen naisen onnettomuuteensa. Ja ennen kaikkea - mieshän on tottunut ajattelemaan Toista naista jonkinlaisena täydentäjänä. Mieluummin hän nai jonkun, joka ei ole koskaan ollut mikään täydentäjä.

I overheard a young man once saying to his wife, "I can't control you. That's the problem and it's been the problem ever since day one!" And then I heard her answer him and heard her terrible voice. "No!" she said. "The problem isn't that you can't control me, the problem is that you're trying to. Why don't you stop worrying about controlling me and start worrying about controlling yourself?

Among the Mediterraneans," wrote Seltman, "as a general rule society was built around the woman, even on the highest levels where descent was in the female line. A man became king or chieftain only by a formal marriage and his daughter, not his son, succeeded so that the next chieftain was the youth who married his daughter Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Until the northerners arrived, religion and custom were dominated by the female principle.

Uma mulher não pode existir sozinha, sob o risco de deixar de ser mulher. Ou se converte, para tranquilidade de todos, numa outra coisa: numa louca, numa velha, numa feiticeira. Ou, como diria Silvestre, numa puta. Tudo menos mulher. Foi isto que eu disse a Noci: neste mundo só somos alguém se formos esposa.

A gente ama alguém que desconhecemos, casa com quem conhece e vive com uma pessoa irreconhecível.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely.

If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and an endless barrage of ridicule and insults. It feels like the only thing I can count on right now. I don't want something dumb like respect and affection getting in the way.

In early Judaism, the priesthood was maintained within various families and passed down from father to son, thus necessitating marriage. But this is the old covenant, and even within this model priests were required to abstain from having sex with their wives during the time they served in the Temple. Catholics believe that priests fulfill this Temple relationship ever day - the Mass and the Eucharist mean they are serving in the Temple every day of their ordained lives.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

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recruiting is like romance, and employment is like marriage.

Tell me, McFadden, what do you think of our beloved Mr. Chamberlain?" Mac didn't care for such direct questions. All his adult life had been spent in the mentality of the gulag, never openly complaining, always seeming to conform, never risking a row. Perhaps that's why he had agreed to marry, not so much to avoid disappointing the lady but more because it was the simplest way to fit into the flow of things.

The questions of marriage, family, and sexuality have never been resolved," says Gary [Snyder]. "Not by the Japanese, and less so by the Americans. They just overlook them. They don't know what else to do with them.

When Japanese Zen monks began to marry in the nineteenth century (and almost all of them are married today), they gave up the defining practice of monasticism—celibacy, aloneness. But they refused to turn in their costumes or close their theaters. Instead, they altered the forms.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

It may well be that an analysis of figures would reveal a law - the duration of a marriage is inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding. Or, to put it another way, any union celebrated with personalized toasting flutes is doomed.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together.

Klarman has a wonderful line: "Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator."35 He's saying that you have to be different from others and focus on gaps between price and value. This idea extends well beyond the world of investing.