Marriage Quotes - Page 27

• My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

  Max Miller

  Goodbye, Wedding, Kissing

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• Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

  Jim Backus

  Humorous, Drinking, Successful

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

  Colin Chapman

  Funny Love, Home, Successful

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• For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

  Fred Ebb

  Anniversary, One Day, Looks

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• Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Love, Thinking, Wife

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• Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Work, Play

  Music Is My Mistress act 8 "Pedestrian Minstrel" (1973)

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• 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Rivals, Aversion

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

  William J. Clinton

  Funny, Witty, Wife

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• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Couple, Hate

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• If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Suicidal, Mary

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• Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

  Mark Gorman

  Winning, Positive Marriage, Lasting

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• Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

  Gretchen Rubin

  Weather, Picnics, Positive Marriage

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• Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, People, Honey

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• We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

  Joe

  Divorce, Work Out

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Distance, Farewell

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Love, Romantic, Fall

  "Fictional character: Iannis". "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• The surest way to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Single, Wedding, Way

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• She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

  Tommy Manville

  Divorce, Judging, Tears

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• There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

  Clifford Odets

  Husband, Two, Wife

  "Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays".

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• The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

  Rita Rudner

  Love, Witty, Couple

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• How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

  Catharine Beecher

  Disappointment, Heart, Suffering

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.211

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• Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Wife, Foreigners

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.491, Courier Corporation

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• Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic, Wedding, Couple

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.490

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• Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Love, Funny, Wedding

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

  Nora Roberts

  Fire, Land, Kitchen

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