Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Groucho Marx
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. — Mae West
Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases. — Milton Berle
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 still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient. — Harriet Martineau
Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Benjamin Carson
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 is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. — Simone de Beauvoir
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. — Jack Kingston
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 may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. — Voltaire
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. — Aeschylus
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. — Alan King
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore de Balzac
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. — Abraham Lincoln
Marriage Institution Image Quotes
Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.
Marriage Ceremony Quotes
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran
My true love hath my heart, and I have his — Philip Sidney
The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men. — Nellie L. McClung
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.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness — Kahlil Gibran
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment. — Cassandra Clare
We have created a Star Wars civilization with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.
May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding. — James Dillet Freeman
The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year. — Hedy Lamarr
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so. — Paul Martin
Wedding Marriage Quotes
I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married. — Lewis Grizzard
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
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. — Oscar Wilde
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. — Ronald Reagan
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey
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
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
The Christian church does not ask the U. S. Supreme Court, or any other human court, what marriage is. Marriage is a pre-political institution defined by our Creator - for His glory and for human flourishing. — Albert Mohler
Marriage Contract Quotes
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. — Linda Fiorentino
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic. — Joseph Story
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. — Isadora Duncan
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. — Dalton Trumbo
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish. — Robert A. Heinlein
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. — Charlie Sheen
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. — Colin Powell
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. — Spencer W. Kimball
What's a domestic partnership? Domestic partnership is not even a marriage, and there's a contract that involves, potentially, sexual and financial commitments to each other. In this case, however, the guy is also charging one dollar, and that is his undoing. — Max Kellerman
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. — Andrea Dworkin
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. — Mitt Romney
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. — Jeff Sessions
It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet. — James Dobson
... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist. — Masha Gessen
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. — Barbara Ehrenreich
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier. — Pope Leo XIII
Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted. — Michele Bachmann
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. — Kareena Kapoor
Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman. — Mike Rounds
New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. — Mark Twain
I think society is entitled to recognize marriage as an institution that involves one man and one woman. — Phyllis Schlafly
Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves and conveniences and one upon whom a permanent lien has been acquired through the institution of marriage. — Ashley Montagu
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. — Henry Rollins
You can't handle the truth! — Jack Nicholson
I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. — Richard Pryor
In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter. — Clarence Thomas
Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could]. — Charlize Theron
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies. — Susan Sontag
But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman. — Ann Coulter
Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor. — H. L. Mencken
We must refuse to submit to those institutions which are by definition sexist - marriage, the nuclear family, religions built on the myth of feminine evil. — Andrea Dworkin
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. — Osho
True it is, as society is instituted, marriage becomes somewhat of a lottery, for all its votaries are either the victims of Cupid or cupidity; in either instance, they are under the blinding influence of passion, and consequently but little subject to the control of reason. — Arthur Frederick Saunders
I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties. — Peter MacKay
The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective. — A. R. Rahman
I will get married soon. It is in the pipeline. I believe in the institution of marriage. — Sayings
Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird. — Joan Fontaine
Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution? — Unknown
Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. — Jack Kingston
I still think marriage is a goofy institution if you set it up as this institution with a predetermined set of rules. It's unhealthy to have a predisposed expectation of what you think a marriage should be - as this thing at the end of the rainbow. False expectations take away joy. — Sandra Bullock
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. — Rick Santorum
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage. — Alveda King
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. — Jeff Miller
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution. — Barack Obama
I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up. — Jessica Valenti
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. — Jeremy Taylor
In all of Western civilization, there have been societies that celebrating the homosexuality, the ancient Greeks. But they, in fact, protected the institution of marriage as a union between one man and one woman. They got the joke. And the American people get the joke. — Ken Blackwell
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