Marriage Quotes - Page 34

• You're nothing short of my everything.

  Ralph Block

  Love, Romantic, Couple

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

  Fred Ebb

  Anniversary, One Day, Looks

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• The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Children, Humorous, Together

  "The Little Things You Do Together" (song) (1970)

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

  Joe

  Divorce, Work Out

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Sex, Hate

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

  Bill Maher

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Human Nature

  "I'm against gay marriage--and straight marriage too" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2011.

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• It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

  August Strindberg

  Angel, Thinking, Married

  "Plays".

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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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• Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Agreement, Happens

  Betty Jane Wylie (1988). “All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world”

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• The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Relationship, Humor

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• Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Relationship, Fall, Men

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• Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Couple, Wedding Anniversary

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• Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

  Gloria Gaither

  Love, Valentines Day, Hope

  Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”

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• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Herbert V. Prochnow (1994). “1000 Stories and Illustrations for All Occasions”, Baker Publishing Group

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• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

  E. W. Howe

  Love, Husband, Might

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• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Heart, Defeated

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• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Wedding, Sight, Sea

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

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• Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

  Austin O'Malley

  Meals, Desert, Soup

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