Matrimony Quotes - Page 4

• Matrimony is not a word, it's a sentence.

  Eddie Cantor

  Sentences

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

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  Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

  John Lennon

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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  We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

  Robert Fulghum

  Love, Funny, Life

  "True Love". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1997.

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• If I seek to fulfill my own needs at the expense of my partner, we are sure to experience unhappiness, resentment, and conflict. The secret of forming a successful relationship is for both partners to win.

  John Gray

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

  John Gray “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”

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• My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh, I forget about the sky

  Nizar Qabbani

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Nizar Qabbani, “My Lover Asks Me”

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• I’m happily married. I’ve got more than enough to eat at home.

  Rob Ford

  Love, Happy, Marriage

  "Rob Ford: 'Enough To Eat' Comment Met With Disgust". www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 14, 2013.

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• In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

  R. C. Sproul

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Relationship, Marriage, Couple

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• Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

  Pope Francis

  Relationship, Happiness, Happy

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Relationship, Marriage, Christian

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 27, 2015

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• The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Life, Relationship, Family

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Prejudice, Determined, Deepest Love

  "Pride and Prejudice". TV Mini-Series, www.imdb.com. 1995.

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• Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Sweet, Winter

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.153

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• What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

  Myrtle Fillmore

  Men, Lds, Together

  Charles Fillmore, Myrtle Fillmore (1938). “Unity [devoted to Practical Christianity]”

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• If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

  Bruce Barton

  Money, Mean, People

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• It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mistake, Ancient, Social

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• An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.

  Ursula Parrott

  Divorce, Wife, Necks

  Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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• Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

  Emily Murphy

  Games, Favors, Chance

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• Marriages on earth--because they are the seminaries of the human race and of the angels of heaven also; because, likewise, they proceed from a spiritual origin, that is, from the marriage of good and truth; and since, in addition, the Lord's divine proceeding principally flows into conjugal love--are most holy in the estimation of the angels.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Spiritual, Angel, Race

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• Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Lanes, Wedlock

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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• As a great part of the uneasiness of matrimony arises from mere trifles,, it would be wise in every young married man to enter into an agreement with his wife, that in all disputes of this kind the party who was most convinced they were right should always surrender the victory. By which means both would be more forward to give up the cause.

  Henry Fielding

  Wise, Giving Up, Party

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• If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

  Ovid

  Marriage, Equal, Ifs

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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

  Marriage, Men, Perfection

  Robert Boyle (1966). “Works”

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• There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

  Samuel Richardson

  Giving Up, Married, Turns

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