Marriage Quotes - Page 32

• Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.

  Kai Knudsen

  Love, I Miss You, Boyfriend

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• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Love, Funny, Relationship

  Herbert V. Prochnow (1994). “1000 Stories and Illustrations for All Occasions”, Baker Publishing Group

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• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

  E. W. Howe

  Love, Husband, Might

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• The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Heart, Defeated

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• Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Wedding, Sight, Sea

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.503, Wordsworth Editions

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• Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wedding, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Wedding, Wife, Desire

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.

  Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield

  Wedding, Emotion, Humans

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• Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wedding, Bird, Despair

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• Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Happiness, Wedding, Laughter

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

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• The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Wedding, Two, Three

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• I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wedding, Men, Understanding

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.34

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• Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

  Anne Sexton

  Wedding, Heart, House

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Wedding, Guarantees, Lasts

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• An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Wedding, Husband, Agreement

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.

  Charles Lamb

  Wedding, Couple, World

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.79

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• The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wedding, Men, Effectiveness

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

  Thomas More

  Wedding, Hands, Eels

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• Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

  Rebecca West

  Wedding, Divorce, Cheerful

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• Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.

  John Selden

  Wedding, Men, People

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• At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Wedding, Twenties

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.604, Delphi Classics

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• There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

  E. W. Howe

  Money, Men, Earning It

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• Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

  Oscar Wilde

  Years, Romance, Looks

  A Woman of No Importance act 1 (1893)

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• I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

  Mickey Rooney

  Funny, Men, World

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• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny Love, Police, Lost Friendship

  "Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

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