Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

Rajneesh

But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.

Rajneesh

But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction. And love? - love can never satisfy you. It gives you more and more thirst for a better and better love, it makes you more and more long for it, it gives you tremendous discontentment. And that discontent is the beginning of the search for God. When love fails many times, you start looking for a new kind of lover, a new kind of love, a new quality of love. That love affair is prayer, meditation, sannyas.

Rajneesh

Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

Rajneesh

I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.

Rajneesh

What do marriage vows show? They show that you may want to separate sometime in the future. If there is love between two people, the thought of taking vows never arises. This is only an indication of the absence of love. People do not marry out of love; they marry out of fear. If there is love on this earth, marriage will become redundant. When love is not, marriage is a must. We make arrangements for that which we cannot do. We make rules for that which we are not sure of.

Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent

John Milton

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

John Milton

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Noel Coward

Marriage is the aftermath of love.

John Steinbeck

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

John Steinbeck

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Nicolas Chamfort

Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn't marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.

Nicolas Chamfort

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

Nora Ephron

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

Nora Roberts

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Mignon McLaughlin

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

Mignon McLaughlin

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Mignon McLaughlin

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Mignon McLaughlin

A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Mignon McLaughlin

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

John Wilmot

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

John Wilmot

The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.

Meg Ryan

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Max Schmeling

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

Mary Webb

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Mary Wesley

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Plautus

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

Philip Larkin

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.