Marriage Quotations
Marriage is one of the pillars of life. It is a fantastic thing to enter into and *can* be a cournerstone of families. They offer many benefits but require many sacrifices. Of course, more and more people are seeking divorce due to bad circumstances. Nonetheless, that doesn't mean there isn't someone out there for them.
Below is a list of quotes about marriage and what it means to us.
When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Susan B. Anthony
Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.
Bettina Arndt
I married beneath me--all women do.
Nancy Astor
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled.
Henry Ward Beecher
Bride, n. A Woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and taht's his plague.
Robert Burton
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
Cyril Connolly
The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to divine or universal love.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin Luther
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly
A virtuous wife is a man's best treasure.
Muhammad, The Sayings of Muhammad, 418
If they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Paul, 1 Coorinthians 7:9
Saw a wedding in the church; and strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Samuel Pepys
Wedlock is a padlock.
John Ray
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
My dear, my better half.
Sir Philip Sidney
A wife is the joy of a man's heart.
Talmud, Rabbinical writings
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