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There are seven deadly sins, not just one, and Christianity's understanding of marriage and chastity is intimately bound to its views on gluttony, avarice and pride. (Recall that in the Inferno, Dante consigns gluttons, misers, and spendthrifts to lower circles of hell than adulterers and fornicators.) ↗

— Ross Douthat

#marriage

Men are pigs, darling. I really have every sympathy for women that they actually have to choose one of these arrogant, stupid morons to settle down with and marry. ↗

— Michael Winner

#humour #marriage #men-and-women #michael #stupidity

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#psychology #reproduction #men

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

I will put your skill to the test, but if you do not pass, you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song. ↗

— Brothers Grimm - THE MASTER THIEF

#marriage

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

Philip wasn't the sort of man to make a friend of a woman. He wanted devotion. I gave him that. I did, you know. But I couldn't stand being made a fool of. I couldn;t stand being put on probation, like an office-boy, to see if I was good enough to be condescended to. I quite thought he was honest when he said he didn't believe in marriage -- and then it turned out that it was a test, to see whether my devotion was abject enough. Well, it wasn't. I didn't like having matrimony offered as a bad-conduct prize. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#hypocrisy #matrimony #marriage

A young man married is a man that's marred. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#matrimony #marriage