MARRIAGE QUOTES XV

quotations about marriage

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

Marriage

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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

JEFFREY EUGENIDES

Middlesex

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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

EZRA POUND

letter to his mother, 1909

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What's Wrong with the World

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My new found meaning of Marriage is a place where you can be yourself and has breathing space to grow personally and spiritually as and when I want without having to consult my partner about my changes. It is a beautiful place without suffocation, a place where you can learn and teach each other, a place where you do not feel prohibited and a place where you do not have to log in and log out.

JEANETTE DE JONK

Unconventional & Spiritual Marriage

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To make a happy fire-side clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.

ROBERT BURNS

"To Dr. Blacklock"

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting.

BRAHMA

The Laws of Manu


It is internal union, not external agreement, that makes the real marriage.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other.

SAMMY CAHN

"Love and Marriage"

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Marriage is not a word, it's a sentence--a life sentence.

DAVID MINKOFF

Oy!


Matrimony is an engagement which must last the life of one of the parties, and there is no retracting ... therefore, to avoid all the horror of a repentance that comes too late, men should thoroughly know the real causes that induce them to take so important a step, before they venture upon it; do they stand in need of a wife, an heiress, or a nurse; is it their passions, their wants, or their infirmities, that solicit them to wed?

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The only way you can make a marriage work is as free, independent people. It needs to be based on the good feelings that you have for each other, not on need.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

"Alexander Lowen: An Energetic Man", Journal of Counseling & Development, September/October 1992

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A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

FRANK SINATRA

The Joker Is Wild

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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In the choice of a wife, we ought to make use of our ears, and not our eyes.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Marriage has some thorns, but celibacy has no roses.

VERNON K. MCLELLAN

Wise Words and Quotes

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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.

ZANE

Dear G. Spot

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Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and his England

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