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We ask what is the origin of marriage, and we are told that like the right of property, after many wars and contests, it has gradually arisen out of the selfishness of barbarians.
Occasionally a matrimonial epidemic appears, especially toward spring, devastating society, thinning the ranks of bachelordom, and leaving mothers lamenting for their fairest daughters.
Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of bondage, and lots more. But do you know what I think it is?'
'What?'
'A sport!'
'And a damned good sport too,' said Tommy.
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
Marriage is the aftermath of love.
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.
[Marriage] is the reunion of the separated duad. Originally you were one. You are now two in the world, but the recognition of the spiritual identity is what marriage is.
Marriage is a sacred-commitment.
Those men and women who follow the path of the Perfect Matrimony finally gain the bliss of entering Nirvana, which is to be in oblivion of the world and men forever...
Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.
Marriage is a duet or duel.
Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.
Marriage is the tomb of love.
A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.
Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is holiness to the Lord.
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.
When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.
Marriage ... is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth. The
Matrimony is the price of love
divorce, the rebate.
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey ...
[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.
Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.
Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.
Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
Matrimony might be a fleeting folly that tricked you into believing that it would be forever, but it was harder to appreciate the humor when you were not the one who ended it
And I still don't understand the purpose of a wedding. What could possibly induce two free beings to partner only with each other for the rest of their existence?
This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:
Marriage is a mutual faithful friendship
Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
Marriage and especially the ceremony which announces it, the wedding ... That is how we say to the world, 'These two are now a family, and with this joining our families are joined, too. And you had damned well better respect that.
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.
Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Marriage is the most sacred union in which much respect is given in society to those who treat it as such.
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'
We got married: society's solution to loneliness, lust and laundry.
Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.
Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart
Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.
Americans love marriage too much. We rush into mariage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses, and hopes. In fact, we've made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we've loved it to death.
Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality.
Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Marriage and Money
As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy ...
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Marriage is an error of youth
The homely and erotic patters of marriage are not easily discarded.
Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Marriage is a great institution.
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.
Husband and wife, must complement each other.
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness - a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both.
Marriage is a mystery.
Marriage is a cheerful commitment.
Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.
The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
Marriage
So different, this man
And this woman:
A stream flowing
In a field.
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
Underneath the quarrels,the misunderstandings, the apparent hostility of everyday life, a real and true affection can exist. Married life, I mused, as I went to bed,
was a curious thing.
In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.
Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
The only reason why mankind has celebrated marriages is that they renew the race; they bring forth new life, within the bounds of a holy vow.
O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.
Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life.
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.
Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch.
Marriage is a necessary evil
Today, the need to avoid confusing marriage with other types of unions based on weak love is especially urgent. It is only the rock of total, irrevocable love between a man and a woman that can serve as the foundation on which to build a society that will become a home for all mankind.
Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union
a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.
Marriage. The other thing, after all, came so much
Marriage is the harmony of God synchronizing two wills with the will of the Father.
Marriage: that is what I call the will by two for creating the one who is more than those who created it. Respect for one another I call marriage, and respect for the one who wills such a willing. Let
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill.
The love of the married man and woman is not a private romance, but a recapitulation of the love that brought them into being in the first place, and that love is what we all duly celebrate.
Marriage ... is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man. Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.
Marriage is a bike, not a unicycle
Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.
Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.
The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends