Marriage Quotes - Page 20

• Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Women, Home

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• There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

  Clint Eastwood

  Single, Divorce, Learning

  Investor's Business Daily, April 9, 2001.

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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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• When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

  Sacha Guitry

  Inspirational, Funny, Clever

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" edited by Connie Robertson, (p. 83), 1998.

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Anniversary, Husband, Thinking

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• I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

  Benjamin Spock

  Love, Husband, Inspiration

  "Older & Wiser". Book edited by G. B. Dianda and B. J. Hofmayer, 1995.

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• He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Wedding, Children

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.41

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Wedding, Passion

  Getting Married preface (1911)

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• For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

  Rosemonde Gerard

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

  Harriet Martineau

  Love, Men, Literature

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.168

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• Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

  St. Jerome

  Inspirational, Sleep, Night

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• Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

  William A. Clark

  Men, Before Marriage, Silent

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• Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wedding, Eye, Wife

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• Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.

  Dick Gregory

  Political, Promise, Voters

  Dick Gregory (1972). “Dick Gregory's political primer”

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• People change and forget to tell each other.

  Lillian Hellman

  Relationship, Change, Communication

  Lillian Hellman (1960). “Toys in the Attic: A Drama in Three Acts”, Dramatist's Play Service

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• Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

  Ellen Key

  Love, Moral, Love Is

  Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”

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• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  Jackie Mason

  Funny Love, Cheating, Love You

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

  Iris Murdoch

  Women, Writing, Luck

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.29, Penguin

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• Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Life, Religion

  "Maxims for Revolutionists (#1)". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1903.

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• In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Husband, Selfish, Men

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

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• So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

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• In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

  Enid Bagnold

  Inspirational, Wedding, Children

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

  E. W. Howe

  Flirty, Regret, Mistake

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• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

  Frank Pittman

  Cheating, Husband And Wife, Infidelity

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• To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Suffering

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