Famous Quotes

"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."

Rowan D. Williams on Marriage

More quotes about Marriage

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

  Mignon McLaughlin on Marriage

• "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

  Socrates on Marriage

• "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

  Friedrich Nietzsche on Marriage

• "How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

  Oscar Wilde on Marriage

• "Don't marry the person you think you can live with marry only the individual you think you can't live without."

  James C. Dobson on Marriage

More quotes by Rowan D. Williams

• "In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."

• "So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."

• "Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow."

• "To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context."

• "Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality."