Marriage Quotes
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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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The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
Stephen Sondheim
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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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If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.
Anthony McCarten
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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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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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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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A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.
Jessica Simpson
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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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Although we are busy with our own work, we still try and spend time together. At the same time, we give each other space. I think that is the key to a successful marriage.
Gauri Khan
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I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard.
Ethan Hawke
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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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Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.
Hillary Clinton
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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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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William Faulkner
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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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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth
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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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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
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian
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When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.
Francois Rabelais