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Marriages Quotes (page 28)

Mignon McLaughlin quote: "A successful marriage requires falling in love over and over..."
A successful marriage requires falling in love over and over again, always with the same person Mignon McLaughlin
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes. Jean Cocteau
Dodie Smith quote: "There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so..."
There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. Dodie Smith
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularize the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote over five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage,... Daniel Defoe
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages?..."
And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that? I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a... Oscar Wilde
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun quote: "Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together...."
Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together. [p. 23] Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations! F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence — either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous ‘embarkation’ and heroic conquest, or else to annihilate the persona and transcend the ego in an obscure rapture of sensuality, a frenzy of romantic passion, more creditably, in the mutual charity of the perfect marriage. Aldous Huxley
Alexander Dumas quote: "The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear..."
The chain of marriage is so heavy that it takes two to bear it; sometimes three. Alexander Dumas
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of..."
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement. Wilhelm Reich
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find. Nicholas Sparks
Anne Lamott quote: "A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting..."
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. Anne Lamott
I remember saying once to my friend Susan, when my marriage was becoming intolerable, "I don't want my children growing up in a household like this." Susan said, "Why don't you leave those so-called children out of the discussion? They don't even exist yet. Why can't you just admit that you don't want to live in unhappiness anymore? Elizabeth Gilbert

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