It was an arranged marriage, put together by drugs and alcohol. — Tom Papa
Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. — Joseph Campbell
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. — George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. — Cyril Connolly
A woman must marry the man who loves her but never the one she loves; that is the secret of lasting happiness. — Mariama Bâ
In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty. — R. C. Sproul
The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different — Spencer W. Kimball
Arranging Quotes
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution. — John Adams
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep. — Robert Owen
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B. F. Skinner
Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true. — Neville Goddard
How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. — Richard Dawkins
We simply can't abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. — Buddy Rich
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. — Ada Lovelace
What Is Marriage Quotes
My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky — Nizar Qabbani
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. — Frank Sinatra
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. — Helen Rowland
Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. — Dave Willis
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. — Mark Twain
What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God? — John Donne
Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not. — Michele Weiner-Davis
That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. — Paul Tournier
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. — Clint Eastwood
Before Marriage Quotes
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else. — Mother Teresa
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. — Marilyn Monroe
Look at the mother before marrying the daughter. — Turkish Proverbs
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. — Maria Monk
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. — William Penn
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine de Scudery
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred. — Wendy Shalit
Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God. — Myles Munroe
Marriage Quotes
Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood. — Mahatma Gandhi
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be. — Leo Tolstoy
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. — Robert Fulghum
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. — Ruth Graham
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state. — Unknown Author
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. — Albert Einstein
We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited. — Alfred Adler
Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage. — Michael Horton
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. — Louis Leakey
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. — Laurence Housman
Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. — Fay Weldon
What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. — Terrence Rafferty
When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression of women, the suppression of homosexuals, fatwas, honor killings, suicide bombings, arranged marriages to minors, human sacrifice, burning witches, and systematic sex with children, I have a few little quibbles. And I forgot blowing up girl schools in Afghanistan. — Bill Maher
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president. — Indra Nooyi
Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. — Louise Leakey
To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to say I force you, legally, to love someone. It's like saying, you know, you have to go and love another - you have to go - you know, you have to go marry someone. It's like an arranged marriage. — Caitlin Moran
You get to decide how you're going to look and what you're going to be when you grow up and when people learned that my parents actually had an arranged marriage people thought that was the most horrific thing on earth. I mean how could anybody allow their marriage of all things to be prescribed by somebody else? — Sheena Iyengar
Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really. — Jared Harris
I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them. — Nelson Mandela
Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money. — Mahatma Gandhi
What I object to is the hyper-fetishized wedding day, the prioritizing of wedding over marriage. I have a real problem with couples spending far more time discussing the seating arrangement or the color of the bridesmaid's gowns than hashing out, for instance, their feelings about how they intend to handle questions of housework, child-rearing, finances and fidelity for the next four or five decades. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them. — Siddharth Katragadda
Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting. — Emma Goldman
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it. — Tennessee Williams
There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough. — Archie Panjabi
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. — Jhumpa Lahiri
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst. — Gerald Brenan
Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency. — Nicolas Chamfort
I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement. — Groucho Marx
Marriage is very secure. It is safe. There is no growth in it. One is simply stuck. Marriage is a sexual arrangement; intimacy is a search for love. Marriage is a sort of prostitution, a permanent sort. One has got married to a woman or to a man - it is a permanent prostitution. The arrangement is economical, not psychological, not of the heart. — Osho
What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together. — Osho
Marriage is a totally different phenomenon: it is the climax of love. Then it is good. I am not against marriage - I am for the REAL marriage. I am against the false, the pseudo, that exists. But it is an arrangement. It gives you a certain security, safety, occupation. It keeps you engaged. Otherwise, it gives you no enrichment, it gives you no nourishment. — Osho
Fine. Sit around being inconsiderate asses…and you wonder why none of you are married. (Zarina) (Sway cleared his throat meaningfully.) Oh, shush. You don’t count. You had an arranged marriage. These losers can’t get a girl for more than three and half minutes it takes them to embarrass themselves with their feeble gropings that always disappoint. (Zarina) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones. — Leo Tolstoy
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