Marriage Quotes - Page 30

• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

  Laurence Housman

  Mothers Day, Mom, Baby

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Work, Play

  Music Is My Mistress act 8 "Pedestrian Minstrel" (1973)

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• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Couple, Hate

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• That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Distance, Farewell

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.3265, Delphi Classics

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• When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Love, Romantic, Fall

  "Fictional character: Iannis". "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• The surest way to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Single, Wedding, Way

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• Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

  Charles Dickens

  Romantic, Wedding, Couple

  Charles Dickens (1854). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster”, p.490

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• Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

  Samuel Pepys

  Love, Funny, Wedding

  'Diary' 25 December 1665

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• Think to Thank. In these three words are the finest capsule course for a happy marriage, formula for enduring friendship, and a pattern for personal happiness.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Friendship, Happiness, Gratitude

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• Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

  Byron Katie

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

  John Philip Sousa

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it

  Donald M. Fraser

  Anniversary, Believe, Home

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• One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• A good marriage is each for the other and two against the world.

  Robert Breault

  Two, World, Good Marriage

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• Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Funny, Relationship

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• There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Family, Men

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• Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Two, Truthfulness

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• Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Given, Love Is

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• Am I keeping my promises?

  Robert Breault

  Promise

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• Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans
  dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage,
  and marriage alone, we despair.

  Maggie Gallagher

  America, Optimism, Despair

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• Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like
  a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only
  find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.

  Frank Pittman

  Hurt, Men, Thinking

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• It is necessary but insufficient to stay married for the children's sake. It is also
  necessary to stay happily married for the children's sake. I'm so glad someone
  noticed that marriage doesn't have to make you miserable. It is just so easy to
  be happy I don't understand why it isn't more popular.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Sake, Married

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• [The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.

  Michael Warner

  Gay, Typical, Priests

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• Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Grateful, Acceptance, Men

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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