Marriage Quotes - Page 34

• Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

  Howard Gardner

  Love, Fall, Creativity

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• Happiness is love, nothing else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Happiness

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• The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love, Compassion, Perfection

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• A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Firsts, Hotel, Rate

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.30, BookBaby

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• It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Gone, Modern

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• Wedding is destiny,
  And hanging likewise.

  John Heywood

  Wedding, Destiny

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Broken Heart, Divorce, Insightful

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.

  Les Dawson

  Couple, Sex Maniac, Institutions

  Les Dawson (2013). “No Tears for the Clown: An Autobiography”, p.95, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Real, Mistake

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

  Ovid

  Memories, Equal, Ifs

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• A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.

  Kin Hubbard

  Girl, Long, Engagement

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• ...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Country, Children, Integrity

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Eight, Years

  "Learning to smile" by Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

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• Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for the gratification of a supreme affection; but, if you will give me that world, there will be in it very few not called to marriage, provided society allows proper opportunities for acquaintance between marriageable persons.

  Joseph Cook

  Wedding, Opportunity, Law

  Joseph Cook (1879). “Monday Lectures in Tremont Hall, Boston, U.S.”

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• Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

  John Everett Millais

  Wedding, Men, Thinking

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• My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye.

  Max Miller

  Goodbye, Wedding, Kissing

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• I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

  J. M. W. Turner

  Wedding, Art, Hate

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• The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

  Colin Chapman

  Funny Love, Home, Successful

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• Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Love, Thinking, Wife

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• I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.

  William J. Clinton

  Funny, Witty, Wife

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• Marriage isn't about winning. It's about lasting.

  Mark Gorman

  Winning, Positive Marriage, Lasting

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• Happiness: "You Bring Your Own Weather To The Picnic."

  Gretchen Rubin

  Weather, Picnics, Positive Marriage

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• Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Love, People, Honey

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• She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

  Tommy Manville

  Divorce, Judging, Tears

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• There are two kinds of marriages, Benny — where the husband quotes the wife, or where the wife quotes the husband.

  Clifford Odets

  Husband, Two, Wife

  "Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays".

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