Marriage Quotes - Page 23

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

  Ellen Key

  Ties, Secret Love, Stronger

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• I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Giving, Mind, Married

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• He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

  Robert Boyle

  Men, Perfection, States

  Robert Boyle (1966). “Works”

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• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Giving, Weakness

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

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• I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

  Meryl Streep

  Garden, Partners, Turns

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• Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

  Samuel Richardson

  Inspirational, Care, Pleasure

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.730, Simon and Schuster

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• The triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny Love, Hope, Wedding

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• The best proof of love is trust.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter" by Jack Canfield, (p. 25), 2001.

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• The essence of love is kindness.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Kindness, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4469, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

  Eva Gabor

  Interesting, Advice, Experiments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Profound, Matter, Wonder

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.316, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Home, Parenting

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• The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

  Phyllis Diller

  Husband, Common, Married

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• Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

  William Congreve

  Grief, High Heels, Haste

  "The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices".

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• Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Men, People, Gentleman

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• Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"

  Garry Shandling

  Wife, Married

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• A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

  Jean Rostand

  Anniversary, Couple, Needs

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• A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Wedding, Funny Valentines Day

  "A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Book by Helen Rowland. Chapter: "Second Marriages", 1922.

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• In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

  Jessica Savitch

  Jobs, Children, Careers

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• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Regret, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Lessons, Taught

  "Drew Barrymore: The Latest Drew Stories". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Sacred Things, Fine, Ifs

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• What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

  Rajneesh

  Differences, Wife, Together

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• My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

  Lucille Kallen

  Husband, Independent, Interesting

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