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The chain of marriage
Marriage is a chain so heavy that it takes two people to carry it - sometimes three.Variously attributed to Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French writer and Alexandre Dumas (son) (1824-1879) French writer Original: Les chaînes du mariage sont si lourdes qu’il faut être deux pour les porter; quelquefois trois. Wordchecker Joe | Sunday, March 25th, 2012 | Filed under Quotations
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27th March 2012 at 4:17 am
well, I agree about marriage is a heavy thing.
I think that marriage is a sacred thing,it is not for game. Especially when we married, we vow to each other and God.
So we have to think carefully before we decide to marry someone.
28th March 2012 at 4:14 am
This citation was from the work of Alexandre Dumas (son) who was also wellknown french writer as his father and both shared the same name,Alexandre Dumas . The son lived between 1824-1895.
28th March 2012 at 9:38 am
i dont know much about marriage coz i havnt had one,but i think it should be very enjoyable if u really merry to MR.right.they should appriciate each other and sometimes it s necessarry to make some interesting things to run for the marriage.in a word ,both of the couple should value this fate and treat it as very best things between them.
28th March 2012 at 2:12 pm
It is funny because in Spanish the translation of “marriage” is “maTRImonio”. In fact, in Spain, a country where marriage was an institution , the people get divorced more and more, now. In other order of facts a lot of young people can not marry because the economic situation (Five milions of people without employement)
28th March 2012 at 5:39 pm
@pierre corso Thank you Pierre. The citation has been amended.
29th March 2012 at 11:17 pm
Marriage is very costly a thing. I think one person before to have decide to marry, he should speak about history himselves to girl. Because after marriage she can hear something, important subjets about him. This problems, can arrive bad result, for example marriage can faild until forever. Therefore, before to marriage speak don’t say lie. If u speak true u will be happy at last……
30th March 2012 at 8:12 pm
the chain of marriages an ever lasting bond that cause either misery or happiness
31st March 2012 at 7:32 am
well, I think if two people agreed to carry a heavy chain,there’s nothing impossible for them. if they suddenly decided to leave the chain on the way they brought it to, they were not serious before making their decision. And can they imagine how sweet it is to realize that the heavy chain of marriage was brought to the destination place by twos….
5th April 2012 at 1:06 pm
Well , generaly marriage like any other relationship between people ,it should be respected fully by two parties .However , marriage has special consideration because when someone decide to marry someone else that simply means they select each other after long thinking , promise and swearing to each other and God that will respect this chain forever and till to death .For that , marriage is very critical dicision that need alot of thinking . In my point of veiow this is not the pracice nowadays as most people get into this exersice without even give themselve time to know each other well , which in turn lead to a lot of divorces cases .
16th October 2012 at 1:42 pm
the most terrible thing about mariage is that if you don’t get married, you’ d have lived alone died alone.
15th March 2013 at 3:01 am
Yes, marriage is very heavy thing in our life. But it’s also an exciting that we have to try to get.
9th June 2013 at 2:32 pm
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