Marriage Quotes - Page 40

• My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Mother, Father, Thinking

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• Married women are far more depressed than married men - in unhappy marriages, three times more; and - interestingly - in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!

  Dalma Heyn

  Men, Emotional, Unhappy

  Dalma Heyn (2011). “Marriage Shock: The Transformation of Women into Wives”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Mean, People, Giving

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• Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Together, Wedding Ceremony, Creatures

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Queens, Mean, Thinking

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Wife, Together, Recalcitrant

  Sabrina Jeffries (2009). “Wed Him Before You Bed Him”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

  Raquel Welch

  Dream, Reality, Childhood

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• Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

  Michelle Shocked

  Writing, Acceptance, Past

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• You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fear, Wife, Rose

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

  Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza

  Love, Wedding, Thinking

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• Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

  Will Cuppy

  Wedding, Home, Wife

  "The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody".

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• I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money.

  Ruth Rendell

  Two, Widows, Wonderful

  "Ruth Rendell: In quotes". www.theguardian.com. May 02, 2015.

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• The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

  Jim Talent

  Strong, Hurt, People

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• Marriage. . . is the most glorious and most exalting principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ.  No ordinance is of more importance and none more sacred and more necessary to the eternal joy of man.  Faithfulness to the marriage covenant brings the fullest joy here and glorious rewards hereafter.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Men, Joy

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

  Emma Goldman

  Husband, Self, Names

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.

  Kevin Bacon

  Sex, Dirty, Fighting

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• The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Fighting, Married

  The Matchmaker act 2 (1954)

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• Marriage is meant to be more about your surrender than about your satisfaction.

  Scott Means

  Love, Family, Sarcastic

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• Having a great marriage isn't rocket science. It's simply a choice.

  Kristine Carlson

  Love, Choices, Rockets

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• Make it your goal to create a marriage that feels like the safest place on earth.

  Gary Smalley

  Love, Goal, Earth

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• Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Attention, Intention

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• As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.

  Scott Means

  Love, Family, Jesus

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• Being 'one flesh' in marriage means that the relationship is not the source of security, affirmation, control, or value. Those issues of identity need to be rooted in Christ.

  Scott Perkins

  Love, Mean, Issues

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• Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.

  Adam Hamilton

  Love, Husband, Thinking

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• Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

  Francis Chan

  Love, Couple, Should

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