Marriage Quotes - Page 17

• The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

  Frank Pittman

  Love, Positive, Laughter

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• My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

  Carnie Wilson

  Inspirational, Friends, Dog

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• Love is often the fruit of marriage.

  Moliere

  Love, Funny, Witty

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny Love, Men, Wife

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

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• Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.

  Colley Cibber

  Wedding, Lying, Circles

  'The Double Gallant' (1707) act 1, sc. 2

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• Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

  Diane Ackerman

  Children, Creative, Adults

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Vanity, Society

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.73, Lulu.com

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• A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Night, Careers, Wonderful

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• Never marry but for love; but see that thou lov'st what is lovely.

  William Penn

  Love, What Is Love, Lovely

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.825

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• It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics

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• Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Blessing, People, Broken

  Man and Superman (1903) act 3

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• I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect
  the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

  Stephen Covey

  Would Be, Neglect, Chairs

  Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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• It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Together, Connections

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 31 Mar. 1772)

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• Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".

  Herbert Spencer

  Funny, Relationship, Witty

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

  Ovid

  Society, Dowry, Married

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

  Carl Whitaker

  Family, Children, Kids

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• Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.

  Pat Conroy

  Divorce, Civilization, Encouraging Marriage

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• Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People, Argument, Desperation

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• Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

  Anne Meara

  Love, Wedding, Sight

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• The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Wedding, Morning, Night

  Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

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• What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Together, Care

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• Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dream, Home, Together

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

  Peter Ustinov

  Sex, Mean, Talking

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• If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Fighting

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• Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Women, Sky

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [153]

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