Marriage Quotes - Page 22

• At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.

  Larry Christiansen

  Love, Family, Support

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• Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Emotional, Needs, Willpower

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2013

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• It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Life, Death, Time

  "From Egg to Embryo: Determinative Events in Early Development". Book by J.M.W. Slack, Ch. 1, 1999.

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• You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

  Tad R. Callister

  Life, Prayer, Tests

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• If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

  F. Burton Howard

  Want Something, Forever, Lasts

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• Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  George Will

  Funny Love, Definitions, Triumph

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• Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sex, Feminist, Prostitution

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.94, Routledge

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• Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments that create your love story.

  Jennifer E. Smith

  Wedding, Husband, Hero

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• I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

  Leila Khaled

  Love, Life, Mother

  "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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• A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Heart, Nouns, Shantaram

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

  Mark Twain

  Anniversary, Wedding, Divorce

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.248, Courier Corporation

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• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

  Joseph Addison

  Wedding, Women, Clothes

  'The Spectator' no. 475, 4 September 1712

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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Missing You, Happy Mothers Day

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

  Alan King

  Funny, Witty, Ties

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• Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

  Loretta Lynn

  Real, Kids, Men

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• It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

  Thomas Mann

  Love, Life, Philosophical

  Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (1971). “Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann”

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wedding, Bird, Cages

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 5, 1595.

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Heartbreak, Sweet

  "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Inspirational, Believe

  "Barack Obama Answers Your Questions About Gay Marriage, Paying For College, More". www.mtv.com. November 01, 2008.

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• Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

  Quentin Crisp

  Swans, Want, Married

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• I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

  Virginia Cary Hudson

  Giving, Mind, Married

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• A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.

  Ellen Key

  Ties, Secret Love, Stronger

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• If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.

  Ovid

  Matrimony, Equal, Ifs

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• An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Hands, Perfection

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.150

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• He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

  Robert Boyle

  Men, Perfection, States

  Robert Boyle (1966). “Works”

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