Marriage Quotes - Page 39

• Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

  Ranvir Shorey

  Wife, Confusing, Littles

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• Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.

  Paul Newman

  Weight, Clubs, Size

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• Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, House, Mistress

  The Subjection of Women ch. 4 (1869)

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• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Life Is Like, Battle, Dueling

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• For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude. I tended to place my wife underneath a pedestal.

  Woody Allen

  Attitude, Years, Wife

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• You know you have found love when you can't find your way back.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Way, Found

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• If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Husband, Wife, Cynical

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• The people people have for friends
  Your common sense appall
  But the people people marry
  Are the queerest folk of all.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  People, Common Sense, Cynical

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• A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Sex, Work

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• The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.

  Anthony Burgess

  Love, Sex, Hate

  "You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1990.

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• What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Love, Couple, Important

  Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Buddhist, Patriotism

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• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

  Plato

  Love, Wise, Plato

  Plato (2012). “Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

  Austin O'Malley

  Meals, Desert, Soup

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• Warren Beatty once quipped that the best time for a wedding was noon, because if the marriage didn't work, you hadn't screwed up the entire day.

  Peter Biskind

  Wedding, Noon, Screwed Up

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• It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Speaking Well, Talking

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.

  Barbara Sher

  Love, Way, Firsts

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• The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love, Beautiful, Secret

  Rob Brezsny (2013). “The Televisionary Oracle”, p.111, North Atlantic Books

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• You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Worthy, Universe

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• This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

  Hafez

  Love, Sky, Wings

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• Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

  Hesiod

  Wedding, Sisterhood, Sorrow

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• A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Wedding Anniversary, Men, Doors

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• Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

  Muhammad

  Love, Firsts, Creator

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• Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

  Thomas Mullen

  Life, Veteran, Used

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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