Modern Marriage Quotes:

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

topic: Love, Relationship, Anniversary, Husband Love, Husband To Be

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Funny, Marriage, Gone, Modern Marriage, Objections

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.24, BookBaby

topic: Love, Anniversary, Marriage, Husband To Be, Marriage And Divorce

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

- Ogden Nash

source: Ogden Nash, “A Word To Husbands”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life, Marriage Advice, Marriage Advice For Newlyweds

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Marriage, Moving, Sea, Marriage Advice, Marriage Toast

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Marriage, Modern, Lost, Modern Marriage

It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

- E. B. White

topic: Marriage, Cutting, Intelligent, Interchange, Modern Marriage

Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

- Carl Rogers

topic: Agony, Preparation, Partnership, Modern Marriage

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Religious, Law, Advancement, Modern Marriage

I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Horse, Thinking, Engineering, Modern Marriage