What Is Marriage Quotes

• 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

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2017). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…”, p.8291, e-artnow

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• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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• 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

  Marriage, Single, Divorce

  Investor's Business Daily, April 9, 2001.

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• A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Marriage, Literature, Stones

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.74, Taylor & Francis

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• Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

  Angela Carter

  Men, Fire, Different

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Long, Suffering

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Men, Doe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1646, Manonmani Publishers

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• With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake. The authors make a compelling secular case for marriage as a partnership between a man and a woman, whose special status is based on society's interest in the nurture and education of children.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Country, Children, Men

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