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Marriage is about banality. Its purpose is banality, to create an environment of surpassing safety and predictability for young children to grow up in, the foundation of life, the root of inner peace.
Orson Scott Card
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot
Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.
Cate Blanchett
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann von Goethe
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
Ambrose Bierce
The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
William Bolitho
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
William Shakespeare
for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
Jane Austen
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.
Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.
Germaine Greer
When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson
Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
Jean de la Bruyere
I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.
George Osborne
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
Gary Bauer
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
Alexis de Tocqueville
