Marriage Quotes
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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
Honore de Balzac
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
Nick Lachey
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I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
Catherine Deneuve
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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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Do not weep, do not weep, my little wife: song of hope and encouragement in marriage.
Bel Kaufman
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I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isnt always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
Regina King
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As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.
Joseph P. Bradley
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A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
John C. Maxwell
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Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.
Vera Brittain
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Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are - they don’t get to change the definition.
Benjamin Carson
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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
Judith Wright
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It was a marriage of love. He was sufficiently spoiled to be charming; she was ingenuous enough to be irresistible. Like two floating logs they met in a head-on rush, caught, and sped along together.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Marriage is a duet or duel.
Emile Augier
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I've always been wary of marriage.
Cynthia Nixon
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Marriage is a partnership between one man and one woman... Nothing could be clearer in the Bible as to what constitutes a marriage in God's sight.
David Jeremiah
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Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.
Anthony Trollope
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On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children: A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
Edith Roosevelt
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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In a marriage, you and your partner come first. And unless you and your partner are happy, that kid's never going to be happy.
Mila Kunis
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
Robert Frost
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I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight.
Mark Ruffalo