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• I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Clever, Bridal Shower

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• There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, World

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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• you can't be value free when it comes to marriage

  Al Gore

  Values

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• Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wedding, Pain, Dating

  Rasselas ch. 26 (1759)

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• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, World, Institutions

  'Representative Men' (1850) 'Montaigne'

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• A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.

  Nanette Newman

  Trust, Best Love, Good Luck

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• A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Memories, Husband, Women

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.35, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  Andre Maurois

  Love, Success, Anniversary

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

  Vita Sackville-West

  Love, Passion, Years

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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• When a match has equal partners then I fear not.

  Aeschylus

  Wedding, Memories, Partners

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.209, University of Chicago Press

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• Fasting for your marriage can change your marriage

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Love, Couple, Fasting

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• Those who have made unhappy marriages walk on stilts, while the happy ones are on a level with the crowd. No one sees 'em!

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Unhappy, Levels, Crowds

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• Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

  Frank Pittman

  Safe, Way, Submarines

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• If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

  Alan King

  Love, Inspirational, Book

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• Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

  Joseph Addison

  Long, Literature, Courtship

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43

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• Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

  Jefferson Machamer

  Wedding Anniversary, Thinking, Lessons

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

  Peter Ustinov

  Love, Life, Baby

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• Ruth and I are happily incompatible.

  Billy Graham

  Ruth

  Billy Graham (2013). “Quotes from Billy Graham: A Legacy of Faith”, p.27, B&H Publishing Group

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• Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

  John Donne

  Love, Cute, Anniversary

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Bait'

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• The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

  Hugh Walpole

  Relationship, Anniversary, Life And Love

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 597, 2006.

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• But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Life, Romance

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Apr 02, 2013

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• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

  W. H. Auden

  Interesting, Romance, Unhappy

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Wedding, Monsters, Literature

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• Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

  Stephen Leacock

  Love, Girl, Wedding

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

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• After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

  Helen Rowland

  Husband, Women, Sight

  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.45, Lulu.com

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