Marriage Quotes
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I want children, but I don't necessarily want to be married because I think marriage is very difficult. To have a successful marriage, you have to work hard and regard it as a job.
Monica Cruz
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If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
William Shakespeare
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
George Eliot
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Marriage by now seemed to me an institution that, contrary to what one might think, stripped coitus of all humanity.
Elena Ferrante
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Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
Minnie Pearl
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My marriage is my marriage, and it means I'm able to share in the same aspirations of commitment and love and support and dedication and connectedness, and that my parents are able to dance at our wedding and that our family and friends are able to support and celebrate and hold us accountable for the commitment we've made to one another. That takes nothing away from anyone else.
Evan Wolfson
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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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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian
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Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Bono U2
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A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
Jessica Simpson
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I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.
Melissa Etheridge
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The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this vote on same-sex marriage out there.
Tony Abbott
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Many people are skeptical about marriage of Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Pressley. They say, Lisa Marie is more of a sit at home type, while Michael Jackson is more of a homosexual pedophile.
Norm MacDonald
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
Jane Austen
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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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It's a lot easier to make friends when you're younger, because kids are a lot less judgmental than adults. They're more like, "O.K., let's be friends." Not, "So, what's your job?" "What's your marriage status?"
Natalie Portman
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I have a very intense marriage.
James Ellroy
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer
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The Church has no double standard of morality. The moral code of heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
Ezra Taft Benson
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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
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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William Faulkner
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I'm terrified of marriage. I'm terrified of not doing something so important and at the same time I think you shouldn't rush into these things.
Burt Reynolds
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I don't want to make any judgments, and I don't want to preach, but I'm hoping that marriage can work: that when people do fall in love, when people do find their soul mate, everyone sticks to it. It has the potential to be a very powerful thing, marriage.
Jonathan Silverman