Marriage Quotes - Page 14

• The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

  A. P. Herbert

  Funny, Life, Anniversary

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• Love is what you've been through with somebody.

  James Thurber

  Love, Valentines Day, Drinking

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• Real giving is when we give to our spouses what's important to them, whether we understand it, like it, agree with it, or not.

  Michele Weiner-Davis

  Relationship, Real, Hard Times

  Michele Weiner Davis (2002). “The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• We accept the love we think we deserve.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

  Robert Breault

  Race, Want, Bridal Shower

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• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Wife, Why Not

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Dance, Letting Go

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

  Amy Grant

  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

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• To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Wedding, Thoughtful

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• Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Wedding, Artist

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• Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

  William Penn

  Wedding, Children, Men

  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.28

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• It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

  George Santayana

  Patience, Appreciate, Unhappy

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 2, ch. 2

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, People, Unwise

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• Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  Herbert Spencer

  Gentleman, Noses, Fingers

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• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Relationship, Ideas, Heaven

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Funny, Broken Heart

  "Unfortunate Coincidence" l. 1 (1926)

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• Marriage can wait, education cannot.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Inspirational, School, Waiting

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2015

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• Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Wedding, Journey

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• If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

  Scott Gardner

  Happy Marriage, Mothering, Ifs

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• I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of
  silence is large enough beyond the grave.

  George Eliot

  Couple, Silence, Political

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.615, 谷月社

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• Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

  Michael Novak

  Health Education, Welfare, Units

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• Love is no assignment for cowards.

  Ovid

  Love, Relationship, Coward

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• A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

  Theodore Parker

  Falling In Love, Long, Wedlock

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.151

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• Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Careers, Benefits, Lasting Marriage

  “Why do we do it?” by Blake Morrison, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2002.

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