Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Marriage

• A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.199, Harvard University Press

• Love, and you shall be loved.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romantic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.35, 谷月社

• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Wish, World

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Montaigne'

• Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.247, Courier Corporation

• Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Education, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.103, Courier Corporation

• The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Children, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.89, Courier Corporation

• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Acceptance

• Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Men, Together

• Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Spiritual, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.322, Modern Library

• The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Design, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.151

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