Marriage Quotes - Page 6

• When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Divorce

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.6, Anchor

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• Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wedding, Witty

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.311

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• My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

  Jimmy Durante

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Encouraging

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• The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Men, Cynical

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Adventure, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Wedding, Golden

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• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Meaningful

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• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Husband, Father

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Valentines Day, Soulmate

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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• When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Girl, Witty

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Scotch Whisky, Whiskey

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• It's true what they say - all the good men are married. But it's marriage that makes them good.

  Gay Talese

  Men, Good Man, Married

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• Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

  Joanne Woodward

  Cute Love, Family, Beauty

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• More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Legs, Four, Bed

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• Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

  Helen Rowland

  Spring, Hands, Trying

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• I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

  Sam Kinison

  Wedding Anniversary, Years, Two

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage has the power to set the course of your life as a whole. If your marriage is strong, even if all the circumstances in your life around you are filled with trouble and weakness, it won't matter. You will be able to move out into the world in strength.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Wedding, Strong

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.84, Penguin

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• One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Wife, Secret, Curiosity

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Let there be spaces in your togetherness

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  The Prophet "On Marriage" (1923)

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• Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Couple, War, Wings

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• Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Standup Comic". A CD compilation of Allen comedy routines from 1964-1968, 1999.

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• Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Funny, Wedding, Witty

  Quoted in Newsweek, 28 Mar. 1960

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• Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny Love, Wedding, Cycling

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2011

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