Marriage Tradition Quotes

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.

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

My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s maiden name was Roosevelt. She didn’t have to change her name when she married Franklin.

I would prefer every [American] state keep the definition of marriage that's prevailed in Western civilization for a couple thousand years.

The arrows are from her dowry.

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

Marriage was defined by God a long time ago. Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve - one man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either.

The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle Ages, that was the kind of marriage that was sanctified by the Church. And so the troubadour idea of real person-to-person Amor was very dangerous. . . . It is in direct contradiction to the way of the Church. The word AMOR spelt backwards is ROMA, the Roman Catholic Church, which was justifying marriages that were simply political and social in their character. And so came this movement validating individual choice, what I call following your bliss.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.