Wedding Quotes - Page 19

• Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

  Robert E. Lee

  Character, Civil War, Foundation

  "General Robert E. Lee After Appomattox" by Franklin Lafayette Riley, (p. 18), 1922.

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Marriage, Bird, Cages

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• They do not love that do not show their love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Valentines Day

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.20

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• Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Opportunity, Temptation

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

  Neil Simon

  Inspirational, Marriage, Couple

  Neil Simon (1971). “The comedy of Neil Simon”, Random House Inc

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• What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

  James Stephens

  Education, Wisdom, Heart

  James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.93, Booklassic

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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  Barbra Streisand

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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• If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Funny, Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Anna Karenina Companion: Includes Complete Text, Study Guide, Biography, and Character Index: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.513, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

  Peter Ustinov

  Hate, Night, Doors

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  That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Marriage, Passion

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love.

  Nicole Krauss

  Love, Moon, Shoes

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedded to action, my husband, and I choose you, and I will choose you every day for the rest of my life.

  Brent Weeks

  Husband, Flower, Love Is

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.475, Hachette UK

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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, Marriage

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

  Bob Seger

  Relationship, Boxing, Together

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• Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

  Paul Hornung

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

  Kris Kristofferson

  God, Women, Thinking

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned" by Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

  Bess Truman

  Church, Want, Might

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• A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

  Charles Simmons

  Inspirational, Character, Half

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.327

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• Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Heaven, Literature, Earth

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• I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Men, Ifs, Marrying

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• A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Two, Ceremony, Persons

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.233, 谷月社

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