Marriage Quotes
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I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.
Jennifer Garner -
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Marilyn Monroe
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve -
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.
Thomas Hardy -
The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.
Jennifer Garner -
There is a strong view in Nigeria, as in many other cultures, that a marriage is not complete without children. I don’t agree; I’m wary of the idea that people have to have some particular functionality in order to be full members of society. I think it’s a very dangerous idea. Humans are humans and they are worthy of respect…
Ayobami Adebayo -
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
George Gobel -
Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
Anthony Robbins
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God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.
Martin Luther -
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 -
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
George Eliot -
Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
Marianne Williamson -
What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?
Elena Ferrante -
Open marriage' is an invention of a feminist era. The idea is to have a marriage where dalliances are tolerated or even encouraged for both men and women, or in some combination where both partners are getting something out of it.
Amanda Marcotte
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It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
Thomas Hardy -
Marriage isn’t about the good days. Anyone can make a life with anyone else when you are having a good day. Marriage is about the bad days. When you have lost confidence. When you have been hurt. Or failed. Or gotten angry. Or made a terrible mistake. That is when the power of a marriage reveals itself.
Stephen Tobolowsky -
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.
Michael Douglas -
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
Rowan Williams -
Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
John Stuart Mill
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde -
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan -
I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton -
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
Thomas More