Marriage Quotes
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Married women are far more depressed than married men - in unhappy marriages, three times more; and - interestingly - in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in marriage, now as always, and who show symptoms of psychological and physical distress outside it. Not only their emotional well-being but their very lives, some studies say, depend on being married!
Dalma Heyn
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Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents—Adam and Eve. They labored together; they had children together; they prayed together; and they taught their children the gospel together. This is the pattern God would have all righteous men and women imitate.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Marriage ... has historically been a battlefield, the site of collisions within and between governments and religions over who should regulate it. But marriage has weathered centuries of skirmishes and change. It has evolved from an institution that was imposed on some people and denied to others, to the loving union of companionship, commitment, and caring between equal partners that we think of today.
Evan Wolfson
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Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.
George Michael
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I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand.
Elizabeth Bear
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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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A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
Jim Samuels
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Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.
Nick Lachey
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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
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I think in any relationship in this industry, there's a stress on relationships. I think that's reality, but in no way do I think that if a relationship is meant to be together and a marriage is meant to be together, that anything like a show or being in this industry can change that.
Evan Ross
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A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
Nanette Newman
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The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.
David Paul
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Marriage is traditionally the destiny offered to women by society. Most women are married or have been, or plan to be or suffer from not being.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Honor your divorce and your new life the same way you honored your marriage.... And if you didn't honor your marriage, learn your lesson and honor your divorce.
April Masini
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The choice of a spiritual path is closer to marriage: one wants a partner for life, one whose companionship will prove as trustworthy and durable as the pole star in the night sky.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Herbert Spencer
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My lifetime listens to yours.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
Tony Dorsett
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Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.
Evan Wolfson
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Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas-fils
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A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
Nuno Bettencourt
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Francois Rabelais
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A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.
Neil Clark Warren