Marriage Quotes - Page 23

• Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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• Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.

  Henry Adams

  Blind

  "Esther: A Novel". Book by Henry Adams, 1884.

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• Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Cohabitation, Has Beens

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 123, 1886.

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• Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

  Diogenes

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Giving, Weakness

  "The Second Sex". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by H. M. Parshley. Book 2, Part 5, Chapter 2: "The Mother", p. 522, 1972.

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• I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

  Meryl Streep

  Garden, Partners, Turns

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• Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

  Samuel Richardson

  Inspirational, Care, Pleasure

  Samuel Richardson (2014). “Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete”, p.730, Simon and Schuster

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• The triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny Love, Hope, Wedding

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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• The best proof of love is trust.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  "Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul : 101 Stories to Sow Seeds of Love, Hope and Laughter" by Jack Canfield, (p. 25), 2001.

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• The essence of love is kindness.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Kindness, Essence

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4469, Delphi Classics

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• Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.

  Eva Gabor

  Interesting, Advice, Experiments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Profound, Matter, Wonder

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.316, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Home, Parenting

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• Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

  William Congreve

  Grief, High Heels, Haste

  "The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices".

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  J. B. Priestley

  Clothes, Endless, Worst

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• I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.

  Richard Pryor

  Believe, Trying, Institutions

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• The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.

  Anna Quindlen

  Two, People, Males

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.78, Ballantine Books

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• When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

  Francois Rabelais

  Judging, Undertakings

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• I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

  Keith Richards

  Atheism, Unhappy, Video

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• Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

  Joe Rogan

  Coke, Psycho, Bad Marriage

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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Respect, Believe, Men

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• I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Soulmate, Husband

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• A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

  Jean Rostand

  Anniversary, Couple, Needs

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• A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Wedding, Funny Valentines Day

  "A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Book by Helen Rowland. Chapter: "Second Marriages", 1922.

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• In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

  Jessica Savitch

  Jobs, Children, Careers

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