Dysfunctional Marriage Quotes

#1. In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#2. Marriage gives you the freedom to give your all to your husband. When you are not married you tend to hold back, just in case. Once you are married you are free to surrender your heart, your love, and your body to your husband. Then and only then, can God bless your coming together." Gail spoke up again and asked Bracie "So God blesses sex?" She smiled at her and told her, "Yes, I believe he does, when you are married. God instituted sex for marriage and it's always in our best interest to wait. - Author: Beulah Neveu

#3. My views are very fluctuating. I have very contradictory takes on the subject. Dating is easier, while marriage is hard work. You see your friends having early divorces, and on the other hand, you see your parents having a successful marriage. - Author: Kangana Ranaut

#4. We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives, leaving them with no one to vote for. - Author: Edward Leigh

#5. Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril. - Author: Hank Hanegraaff

#6. It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. - Author: Euripides

#7. Thou mayest choose an helpmeet," said the King to me.
An helpmeet? What the great googly-moogly was that? - Author: Michael Darling

#8. If you want to change the climate of your marriage immediately, start praying for your spouse - Author: Justin Davis

#9. Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. - Author: Tony Campolo

#10. An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies. - Author: Fernando A. Torres

#11. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. - Author: Phyllis McGinley

#12. The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites. - Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#13. In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family. - Author: Azita Ghanizada

#14. Third, the circumstances of Eve's creation illustrate how deep and meaningful the marriage of husband and wife is designed to be. It is not merely a physical union, but a union of heart and soul as well. - Author: John F. MacArthur Jr.

#15. Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the - Author: Virginia Woolf

#16. He'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage. - Author: George R R Martin

#17. Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons." - Author: Jeremy Irons

#18. Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source." - Warren Buffet - Author: Archie Lee

#19. Why should I keep myself so safe?" he asked her, but he was almost asking himself. What is there in my life worth preserving? With a good wife back there in the mountains, serviceable as an old spoon, dry in the heart from having been scared of marriage since she was six? With three children so shy of their father, the Prince of the Arjikis, that they will hardly come near him? With a careworn clan moving here, moving there, going through th same disputes, herding the same herds, as thy have done for five hundred years? And me, with a shallow and undirected mind, no artfulness in word or habit, no especial kindness toward the world? What is there that makes my life worth preserving?
"I love you," said Elphaba.
"So that's that then, and that's it," he answered her and himself. "And I love you. So I promise to be careful. - Author: Gregory Maguire

#20. There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in 2013 when we were deciding whether to file a brief in the first gay marriage case, the Perry against Hollingsworth case. That was a weighty decision about whether the United States government was going to come in and say that heightened scrutiny ought to apply and some state bans on same-sex marriage ought to be unconstitutional. And that was the one time in my tenure where I thought I ought not make this decision without talking to the president. - Author: Donald Verrilli Jr.

#21. The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. - Author: D.H. Lawrence

#22. Many heterosexual marriages are childless; many with children break up: they are no guarantee that children will be raised in a house with two parents of two genders. The courts have scoffed at the reproduction and child-raising argument against marriage equality. And the conservatives have not mounted what seems to be their real objection; that they wish to preserve traditional marriage and more than that, traditional gender roles. - Author: Rebecca Solnit

#23. Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism. - Author: Kathleen Hanna

#24. Marriage is an excercise in learning our flaws everyday - Author: Siddharth Katragadda

#25. (When)
When you call me nugget.
When you take pictures of me.
When you dance.
When you complement me.
When you laugh.
When your eyes squint as you smile.
When we make love when we're sick.
I fall more in love with you. - Author: Crystal Woods

#26. There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people. - Author: Lily King

#27. What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of. - Author: Rajneesh

#28. God made marriage to point to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Husbands and wives exist to reflect the saving purposes of Christ for his bride, the church. Marriage is an arrow that points to the reality of Christ's love for the church. Marriage is a shadow whose substance is the saving purpose of Jesus. - Author: Heath Lambert

#29. Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering) - Author: Deborah L. McCarragher

#30. How odd, that I ruined my marriage over that little girl with whom I had nothing in common except that we both liked a good laugh and a cold beer after sex. - Author: Gillian Flynn

#31. I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. - Author: Jane Austen

#32. Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

#33. The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana - Author: Jean Sasson

#34. I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick. - Author: Jeanette Winterson

#35. Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me. - Author: Karen Joy Fowler

#36. Christ and his benefits go inseparably and undividedly ... Many would willingly receive his privileges, who will not receive his person; but it cannot be; if we will have one, we must take the other too: Yea, we must accept his person first, and then his benefits: as it is in the marriage covenant, so it is here. - Author: John Flavel

#37. The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses. - Author: Georges Duhamel

#38. The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons - a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy. - Author: Billy Graham

#39. Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature. - Author: Aeschylus

#40. The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics. - Author: Barack Obama

#41. Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'. - Author: Benjamin Disraeli

#42. Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly. - Author: Oscar Wilde