Marriage Quotes - Page 38

• It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

  Frank Muir

  Love, Funny, Attitude

  Frank Muir, Denis Norden (1984). “The utterly ultimate 'My word!' collection”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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• A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Love, Funny, Girl

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

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• Marriage is an exercise in torture.

  Frances Conroy

  Exercise, Torture

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• I'm a heathen when it comes to marriage.

  Greta Scacchi

  Heathen

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• Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

  Jackie Gleason

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

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• And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

  Ringo Starr

  Trying, Married, Concerned

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• I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Fire, Years

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• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Fool, Earth, Good Business

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• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  Sacha Guitry

  Men, Hands, Pretty Woman

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• And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

  Edith Wharton

  Pain, Ties, Tugging

  "The letters of Edith Wharton".

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• God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.

  Francis Picabia

  God, Satan

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• Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Agree, Subjects

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.

  Sam Ewing

  Phrases, Debt, Would Be

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Divorce, Way, Publicity

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• It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

  Richard Jeni

  Country, Divorce, Hey

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• The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

  Marquis de Sade

  Degradation, Horror, Wedlock

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

  Euripides

  Pain, Joy

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

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• We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Would Be

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.71

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• That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

  John Updike

  Real, Heaven, Succeed

  John Updike (2011). “Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism”, p.467, Random House

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• Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wedding, Sacrifice, Simple

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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• Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Love, Two, Church

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• An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mom, Daughter, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

  Germaine Greer

  Husband, Women, Laughing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
  For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
  And stand together yet not too near together:
  For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
  And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Heart, Hands

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Children, Home

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