Marriage Quotes
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If plural marriage be divine, as the Latter-day Saints say it is, no power on earth can suppress it, unless you crush and destroy the entire people.
George Q. Cannon
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
Anthony Trollope
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Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.
Nicholas Sparks
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Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
Gene Robinson
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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.
William Shakespeare
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I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.
Elisabetta Canalis
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Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
Christina Stead
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
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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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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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For those who support same-sex marriage - and I support it without reservation - the ideal of equality and the belief in the dignity of same-sex relationships necessarily makes the issue seem a great deal like the civil-rights struggles of the past.
Benjamin Wittes
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The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything – the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?
Nicholas Sparks
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I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.
Sarah Fielding
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To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.
Martin Luther
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Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Can two celebrities actually make a marriage work?
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
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You can block a marriage, but you cannot force a marriage.
Emmanuel Macron
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Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.
Sean Penn
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
Henry Ward Beecher
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
Lord Byron
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Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.
Bette Davis
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My lifetime listens to yours.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
Gerald Brenan
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Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.
Sharon Horgan