#marriage

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ↗

— Mae West

#great #i #institution #ready

Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#against #attack #beautiful #been #blessing

It's so easy to grow apart; marriage takes work. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#easy #grow #marriage #takes #work

When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#soulmates #beauty

I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#divorce #i #marriage #reason #see

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. ↗

— James Dobson

#couples #eludes #expect #find #i

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family #marriage #relationships #family

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#be grateful #civil #coming #event #felt

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #i think #incredibly #like #marriage