Before Marriage Quotes

• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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  Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Terre des Hommes ch. 8 (1939)

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• Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Marriage, Verbs

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• The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

  Irving Stone

  Love, Romance, Stories

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• What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Relationship, Marriage, Wedding

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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  If I get married, I want to be very married.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Marriage, Wedding

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  In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

  Robert Anderson

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

  James Dobson

  Love, Marriage, Eye

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• Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Family, Marriage, Funny Love

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1738

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• Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Marriage

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  Madeleine de Scudery

  Marriage, Eye, Men

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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 before marriage is absolutely necessary.

  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage, Love Is

  Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.298

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• The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Marriage, Wedding, Morning

  Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

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• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Wedding, Women

  'The Spectator' no. 475, 4 September 1712

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• I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.

  Serena Williams

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Selling the sisters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.

  E. W. Howe

  Marriage, Flirty, Regret

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• Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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• In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

  William Penn

  Marriage, Wise, Wedding

  William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26

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• Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

  Lolo Jones

  College, Training, Olympics

  "Did Lolo Jones Offer Up Too Much Information?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2012.

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• Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Believe, Expression, Risk

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• A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

  George Eliot

  Marriage, Order, May

  'Middlemarch' (1871-2) bk. 1, ch. 9

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