What Is Marriage Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

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

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

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

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.