#marriage

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#rudeness #marriage

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#marriage

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away? ↗

— Sue Townsend

#marriage #matrimony #marriage

Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#marriage

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#brains #heartbreak #marriage #marriage

The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1) ↗

— Confucius

#individuality #marriage

As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife. ↗

— Jack Womack

#marriage

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme Court justice need only persuade four other people. If he or she is not internally constrained by the authority of a text, he or she is not constrained. ↗

— Michael J. Gerson

#politics #politics-of-the-united-states #same-sex-marriage #scotus #united-states

By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other. ↗

— John Langdon-Davies

#sex #marriage

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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