#marriage

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#else #man #marriage #much #nothing

All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#marriage #riches #dreams

Another reason it’s wise for a man to view his marriage and not his job as foundational to his life is the biblical idea of union with his wife. We’re called to work, but we’re never called to be in union with our jobs. However, a man is most assuredly called to be in union with his wife. ↗

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

#work #family

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ↗

— Antisthenes

#arise #bridal #excessive #gifts #marriages

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#friends #friendships #his #less #like

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#had #her #husband #marriage #mother

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. ↗

— Paul Begala

#i #into #like #looking #marriages

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#community #condition #consisting #making #master

No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#age #amend #amendment #any #ban

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#between #first #i #i believe #i believe that