What Is Marriage Quotes

• 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.

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  Mary Ann Glendon

  Country   Children   Men  

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• 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.

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

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  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

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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.

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  Leo Tolstoy

  Relationship   Marriage   Wedding  

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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.

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  Gertrude Stein

  Marriage   Literature   Stones  

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

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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.

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  Clint Eastwood

  Marriage   Single   Divorce  

  Investor's Business Daily, April 9, 2001.

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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!

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  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.

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  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.

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  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage   Men   Doe  

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

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