Marriage Quotes - Page 9

• An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

  Booth Tarkington

  Inspirational, Wedding, Husband

  1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.

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• The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

  Albert Ellis

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

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• It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

  Robert Frost

  Funny Love, Wedding, Men

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• Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Poor Richard, Love And Marriage

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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  If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Funny Love, Wedding, Sex

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

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wedding Anniversary, Men, Bridal Shower

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• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

  Voltaire

  Humorous, Being Single, Being Alone

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• In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Would Be, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.10, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

  Marie Corelli

  Funny, Wedding, Dog

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• What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Husband, Wife, Answers

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Witty, Entrances

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Dance, Wedding

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

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• A good husband makes a good wife.

  John Florio

  Inspirational, Husband, Wife

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• A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Powerful, Pairs

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.179, Courier Corporation

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• Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Endless Sea, Tight Spaces

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

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• Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Funny, Witty, War

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• A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

  Leah Ward Sears

  Mother, Father, Wife

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• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Wedding

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

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• I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Littles, Pay

  Sophia Bedford-Pierce, Jane Austen (2008). “Jane Austen's Little Instruction Book”, p.23, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
  lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
  there to know what we have done for those we love.

  Frank Pittman

  People, Unbearable, Done

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• When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast
  expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result.
  There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social
  programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty,
  drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Pregnancy, School, Men

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• The principal objective of American government at every level should be to
  see that children are born into intact families and that they remain so.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Children, Government, Levels

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• Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
  other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Family, Children, Future

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