Century Quote by Anonymous

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is like a runaway train without break heading towards a dustbin of history. It's a a sad indictment that the bedrock of human…

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

— Hank Hanegraaff

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very few people...…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

— Theodore Zeldin

Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

— Augusten Burroughs

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to…

— Robertson Davies

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public…

— Pope Francis

What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be…

— Sheena Iyengar

For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

— George Meyer