Marriage Quotes - Page 36

• Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Fool, Bigger

  1601 Feste toViola.Twelfth Night, act 3, sc.1, l.32-4.

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• If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.

  Gary Smalley

  Men, Wife, World

  Gary Smalley (1996). “The Keys to Growing in Love”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Retirement, Wife, Hearing

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

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• Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

  Billy Sunday

  Wife, Trying, Doe

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• What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

  Plautus

  Mines

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.1307, Delphi Classics

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• The deed of love is stronger than words

  Pearl Bailey

  Love Is, Stronger, Deeds

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• Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

  Elvis Presley

  Valentines Day, Sweet, Never Let Me Go

  "Love Me Tender" (song) (1956). Cowritten with Vera Matson.

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• If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Want, Ifs

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• The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Selfish, Men, Two

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• When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

  Shana Alexander

  Husband, Eye, Law

  Shana Alexander (1975). “Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights”

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• Chumps always make the best husbands. All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Funny, Life, Husband

  The Adventures of Sally (1920) ch. 10

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Sentimental, Reckless

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• Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.

  Brendon Small

  Two, Adultery, Break

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• Women are always anxious to urge bachelors to matrimony; is it from charity, or revenge ?.

  Louis Gustave Vapereau

  Revenge, Charity, Bachelors

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• Alimony is a system by which, when two people make a mistake, one of them continues to pay for it.

  Peggy Hopkins Joyce

  Mistake, Two, People

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• A light wife doth make a heavy husband.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Light, Wife

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 129

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• I'm a serial bigamist.

  Russ Meyer

  Serials

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

  Gene Simmons

  Men, Persons, Involved

  "5,000 Women and Counting: Which Celeb Is the Biggest Studmuffin?". www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2010.

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Lakes, Often Is

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

  Robert Browning

  Persons, Findings, Finding The Right Person

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• Marriage requires the giving and keeping of confidences, the sharing of thoughts and feelings, respect and understanding always, marriage requires humility - the humility to repent, the humility to forgive. Marriage requires flexibility (to give and take) and firmness: not to compromise principles. And a wise and moderate sense of humor. Both need to be pulling together in the same direction.

  Richard L. Evans

  Wise, Respect, Humility

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• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Creativity, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Family, Legs, Tables

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

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• Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Parent, Desire

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

  William Wycherley

  Love, Gambling, Littles

  William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series

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