Marriage Quotes - Page 31

• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Acceptance, Heaven

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• I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Love, Long, Riches

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• Love either finds equality or makes it.

  John Dryden

  Love, Best Love, Equality

  John Dryden (1701). “The Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas....: Now First Collected Together, and Corrected from the Roginals”, p.490

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• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Friendship, Real

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• Our first and last love is self-love.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Funny Valentines Day, Self

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• I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

  Mike Binder

  Love, Funny, Girl

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• Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

  Irwin Corey

  Wedding, Best Love, Greatest Love

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• You're nothing short of my everything.

  Ralph Block

  Love, Romantic, Couple

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• Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

  Jim Backus

  Humorous, Drinking, Successful

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

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• For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.

  Fred Ebb

  Anniversary, One Day, Looks

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• The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Children, Humorous, Together

  "The Little Things You Do Together" (song) (1970)

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• 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Rivals, Aversion

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Suicidal, Mary

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• We just say: the divorce didn't work out.

  Joe

  Divorce, Work Out

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• I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

  Bill Maher

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Human Nature

  "I'm against gay marriage--and straight marriage too" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 30, 2011.

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• It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

  August Strindberg

  Angel, Thinking, Married

  "Plays".

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• Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

  Nora Roberts

  Fire, Land, Kitchen

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• Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Agreement, Happens

  Betty Jane Wylie (1988). “All in the family: a survival guide for family living & loving in a changing world”

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• The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Relationship, Humor

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• Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Years, Old Year

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, New Year, Holiday

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Relationship, Fall, Men

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• Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

  Laozi

  Relationship, Couple, Wedding Anniversary

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• Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

  Gloria Gaither

  Love, Valentines Day, Hope

  Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”

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