Marriage Quotes - Page 16

• As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Ninety Nine, Doe

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• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Relationship, Confusion

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

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• Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer, heart to heart; The time will come, my own wed Wife, When you and I must part! Let nothing break our band but Death, For in the world above 'Tis the breaker Death that soldereth Our ring of Wedded Love.

  Gerald Massey

  Heart, Wife, Band

  Gerald Massey (1861). “Havelock's March and Other Poems”, p.259

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• The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.

  William Bolitho

  Girl, Strong, Simple

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• Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.

  Samuel Johnson

  Integrity, Ties, Pay

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1836). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.41

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Wedding, Heaven, Receiving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny Love, Mistake, College

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• Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

  Beverley Nichols

  Funny, Anniversary, Romantic

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• There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

  Mary Oliver

  Love, World, Want

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Wuthering Heights ch. 9 (1847)

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• Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Writing, Quality, Patterns

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

  James Dobson

  Love, Eye, Eyes Wide Open

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Heartbreak

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• The first bond of society is marriage.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wedding, Firsts, Matrimony

  "De Officiis (On Duties)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book I, Chapter 17), 44 BC.

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• Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Important, Elements, Fidelity

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• The instances that second marriage move
  Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Thrift, Instance

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

  Frank Carson

  Inspirational, Wedding, Heart

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• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

  Isadora Duncan

  Intelligent, Feminist, Bridal Shower

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Husband, Sisterhood

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anniversary, Witty

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Infidelity, Democracy

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

  H. L. Mencken

  Devil, Ransom, Pay

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  H. L. Mencken

  Trust, Mutual Interest, Together

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• They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

  Alexander Pope

  Funny, Dream, Bridal Shower

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.284

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• Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

  Burt Reynolds

  Men, Average, Done

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