Shotgun Marriage Quotes

Some people rushed into divorce even faster than they rushed into marriage. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts. ~ Virginia Woolf

The London season is like one of those Drury Lane melodramas in which marriage is always the ending. And no one ever seems to give any thought as to what happens after. But marriage isn't the end of the story it's the beginning. And it demands the efforts of both partners to make a success of it. ~ Lisa Kleypas

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed ... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage. ~ D.H. Lawrence

When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman ~ Uneñ Ameji

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. ~ Rebecca West

Some Englishman once said marriage is a long dull meak with pudding served first ~ Julian Barnes

Pray daily for your family. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A marriage ... makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life. ~ Mark Twain

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork. ~ Jim George

In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge ... ~ Simone De Beauvoir

Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage. ~ Michael Horton

Being laughed at is excellent preparation for marriage. ~ Timberlake Wertenbaker

I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods. ~ Crystal Eastman

It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination. ~ Andrew Solomon

Marriage, we learn, is supposed to be a model of Christ's love for the church. It is to be based not upon lust, but upon honor and holiness (Ephesians 5). ~ Alistair Begg

Our marriages were meant to be alive, not dead. Is your marriage more like romance or roadkill? ~ Beth Moore

Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!" ~ David Letterman

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair. ~ Zak Orth

The secret to a happy marriage? Do whatever your wife tells you. 'Yes, dear.' And breathe. ~ Denzel Washington

Don't get me wrong, marriage is good. Good for other people."

"Oh, honey, I can't wait till it's your turn. You are going to be so fun to watch when you fall in love."

"That may just be the meanest thing you have ever said to me. ~ Laurie Roma

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner. ~ Sarah Fielding

I want to be your wife, your lover, your mate for life. I want to feel you inside me, to be one with you, to bear your children, to possess you as you possess me, to touch you as often as I wish, and to feel you quicken in my grasp. I need you ... most desperately. ~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Marriage is contagious and so is monogamy. ~ Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

A woman has to change her nature if she is to be a wife. She has to learn to curb her tongue, to suppress her desires, to moderate her thoughts and to spend her days putting another first. She has to put him first even when she longs to serve herself or her children. She has to put him first even if she longs to judge for herself. She has to put him first even when she knows best. To be a good wife is to be a woman with a will of iron that you yourself have forged into a bridle to curb your own abilities. To be a good wife is to enslave yourself to a lesser person. To be a good wife is to amputate your own power as surely as the parents of beggars hack off their children's feet for the greater benefit of the family. ~ Philippa Gregory

Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment? ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When you marry someone, you marry their entire family. ~ Kevin Jonas

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage. ~ Iain Duncan Smith

There was a big wide world out there. We were just a small wildlife park in Australia. It was absurd to think the two of us could change the world. But our love seemed to make the impossible appear not only possible, but inevitable.
I look back on the talk we had during the ride to the zoo from Cattle Creek as helping to create the basis of our marriage. No matter what problems came along, we were determined to stay together, because side by side we could face anything. ~ Terri Irwin

She's my wife. We're going through this together, because that's what marriage is. She's not dead … I love her. We made vows. That's it. ~ Carian Cole

In successful relationships, perfection is the acceptance of imperfection. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

God will bring the right person into your life at the right time. Always believe that! If they are not there, God isn't finished yet! ~ Shannon L. Alder

I don't call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, an exemplary wife, and instead I get a schemer, plotting to pursue her own rotten ambition under the rubric of poetry . . . what a mockery, what a marriage. ~ Edna O'Brien

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people - sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons. ~ Mick Jagger

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. ~ Hubert H. Humphrey

To any survivor who may be doubting whether what they've experienced is truly abuse, remember that emotional, verbal, and psychological abuse will never be, and should never be, considered part of the messy equation of a normal relationship. As both metal health professionals and survivors can attest to, the traumatic highs and lows of being with a narcissist, a sociopath, or a psychopath are not the natural highs and lows of regular relationships. That suggestion is quite damaging to society and to survivors all around the world. ~ Shahida Arabi

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else. ~ Rick Warren