Marriage Quotes
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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state, Makes me with thy strength to communicate.
William Shakespeare
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Can two celebrities actually make a marriage work?
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects of divorce can be alleviated. Divorce is always painful. But kids in a high-conflict marriage or low-conflict but contemptuous ones are often better off in the long run when the parent can disengage.
Stephanie Coontz
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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
Ann Landers
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Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Marianne Williamson
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It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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There is a war on men, and feminists are very open about it. They don't conceal it; they brag about it. You read all of their material – they're always saying they want to abolish the patriarchy. They said that husbands are not necessary in a marriage, they're not necessary in raising children.
Phyllis Schlafly
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Everyone knows marriage is tough.
Lindsey Vonn
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
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It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.
Andrew Solomon
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The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
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If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.
Benjamin Carson
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There's perhaps no better way to understand what's happening in a marriage than being inside the home.
Elizabeth Flock
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.
Phil Collins Genesis
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Obama sees himself as such a huge change that he can be cautious about other societal changes. But what he doesn't realize is that legalizing gay marriage is like electing a black president. Before you do it, it seems inconceivable. Once it's done, you can't remember what all the fuss was about.
Maureen Dowd
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I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.
Vanessa Kirby
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Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
Ogden Nash
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I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.
Shania Twain
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My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.
Cathy Ladman
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A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not.
Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge
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The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
Barack Obama