Civilisation Quote by Rosa Campbell Praed

“Marriage [is] two flawed people coming together to create a space of stability, love and consolation, a haven in a heartless world.”

— Timothy Keller

“Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner,…

— Anonymous

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress…

— Jack Kingston

“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.”

— Alain de Botton

“The aim of marriage, as I feel it, is not by means of demolition and overthrowing of all boundaries to create a hasty communion,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We always wonder, when we see two people together, particularly when they're actually married, how these two people could have arrived at such a…

— Thomas Bernhard

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

— Menander

“Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to…

— Christian Cantrell

“But when men have at hand a remedy more agreeable to their corrupt will, marriage is almost expulsed. And therefore there are with you…

— Francis Bacon

Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage…

— Evan Wolfson

“Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of…

— Charles Dickens

“Marriage is a contract between 2 people male and female;doing what it takes to make the union work until death due them apart”

— Martellis Thurmand