Marriage Quotes
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Marriage is an indissoluble state of life wherein a man and a woman agree to give each other power over their bodies for the begetting, birth, and upbringing of offspring.
Vincent McNabb -
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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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
Mignon McLaughlin -
I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
Hillary Clinton -
A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.
Nancy Price -
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.
Adolf Hitler -
In a marriage, you and your partner come first.
Mila Kunis -
Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.
Hank Hanegraaff
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin -
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime.” The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)
Confucius -
Most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.
Eda LeShan -
If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
William Shakespeare -
Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.
William J Doherty
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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare -
Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.
Mira Nair -
Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
Nicholas Sparks -
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
Erica Jong -
Marriage is not common in Sweden.
Eva Gabrielsson -
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams
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The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.
David Paul -
Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne -
I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles. I believe this bill is wrong. The consultation process was a complete sham. It is opposed by the established church. It has caused deep and needless divisions within the Conservative Party. There is no mandate for it. There are huge potential consequences... and the nation faces much more serious challenges which the government needs to address.
Gerald Howarth -
For marriage is the worst misfortune!
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