MARRIAGE QUOTES XV

quotations about marriage

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry.... If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

EZRA POUND

letter to his mother, 1909

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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

BILL COSBY

Woman's Day, September 1, 2009

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Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.

ROBI LUDWIG

Till Death Do Us Part

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Marriages are made in heaven though consummated on Earth.

JOHN LYLY

Euphues and his England

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

HERBERT GEORGE WELLS

Marriage

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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

HELEN ROWLAND

A Guide to Men

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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull Play.

WILLIAM CONGREVE

The Old Bachelor

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Love and marriage, love and marriage
Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You can't have one without the other.

SAMMY CAHN

"Love and Marriage"

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To make a happy fire-side clime
To weans and wife,
That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.

ROBERT BURNS

"To Dr. Blacklock"

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Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

G. K. CHESTERTON

What's Wrong with the World

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In the choice of a wife, we ought to make use of our ears, and not our eyes.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

attributed, Life of Samuel Johnson

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

RITA RUDNER

stand-up routine

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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say--"Come, be my wife!" With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the beautifullest external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.

OLIVE SCHREINER

The Story of an African Farm

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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Marriage is divine in its institution, sacred in its union, holy in the mystery, sacramental in its signification, honourable in its appellative, religious in its employments: it is advantage to the societies of men, and it is "holiness to the Lord."

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Marriage Ring

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My new found meaning of Marriage is a place where you can be yourself and has breathing space to grow personally and spiritually as and when I want without having to consult my partner about my changes. It is a beautiful place without suffocation, a place where you can learn and teach each other, a place where you do not feel prohibited and a place where you do not have to log in and log out.

JEANETTE DE JONK

Unconventional & Spiritual Marriage

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In that family where the husband is pleased with his wife, and the wife with her husband, happiness will assuredly be lasting.

BRAHMA

The Laws of Manu


Much of the quarrels and hatred which arise between married people come, in my mind, from the husband's rage and revolt at discovering that his slave and bedfellow, who is to minister to all his wishes, and is church-sworn to honour and obey him--is his superior; and that he, and not she, ought to be the subordinate of the twain.

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Esmond

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