Marriage

(46 votes)   Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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(46 votes)   One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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(45 votes)   For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(45 votes)   For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(45 votes)   Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(45 votes)   Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.

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(45 votes)   Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

Proverbs

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(45 votes)   To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion --far less by the white fi

Mary Webb
1881-1927, British Novelist

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(45 votes)   We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.

Richard Henry Stoddard
1825-1903, American Critic, Poet

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(44 votes)   Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

Proverbs

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(44 votes)   It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(43 votes)   Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

Cass Daley

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(43 votes)   The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(42 votes)   Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(41 votes)   It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

George Bernard Shaw

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