Marriage Quotes - Page 19

• What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

  Ovid

  Men, Wife, Indifferent

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.343, Delphi Classics

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• There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Husband, Taken, Wife

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.36

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• I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

  Dick Martin

  Hair, Dating, Married

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• In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

  Stanley Kunitz

  House, Rooms, Interpreter

  Stanley Kunitz (1983). “The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems”

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• It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage.

  Robert Breault

  Mistake, Easy, Ready

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• I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

  Anna Quindlen

  Husband, Mean, Good Friend

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Running, Men, Long

  Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature "Amateurs" (1974)

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• Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

  Emma Goldman

  Motto, Inferno, Force

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.

  Kin Hubbard

  Husband, Bargains, Seems

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• To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

  Margot Asquith

  Strong, Character, Men

  Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

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• It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

  Alexander Woollcott

  Bed, Companion, Instance

  Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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• Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Luxury, Way

  "Speech on Social Purity". Spring 1875.

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• I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

  Jane Austen

  Struggle, Long, People

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.389, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, People, Wife

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• A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Letting Go, Machines, Can't Let Go

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales”, p.241, tredition

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• There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Running, Cheating, Song

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• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

  Barry Goldwater

  History, Wife, Listening

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Witty, Women

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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• When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Husband, Wife, Faces

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• Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Thinking, Bribery

  Merchant of Yonkers (1939) act 1

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• Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.29, BookBaby

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• You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

  William Galston

  Wedding, Country, Children

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• Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

  Joey Ramone

  Years, Dying, Fifty

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• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Wife, Cynical

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• What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Fashion, Memories

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1972). “Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839-1863”

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