Marriage Quotes
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Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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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When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.
Ava Gardner
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Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
Tertullian
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Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.
Hector Hugh Munro
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At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
Benjamin Cheever
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Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.
Martin Luther
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen
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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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You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.
Hillary Clinton
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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck
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Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.
William Shakespeare
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In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we remain essentially the same.
Gaynor Arnold
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People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Paul Newman
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
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Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
Paul Newman
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Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.
Milton Berle
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A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.
Sarah Parish
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Marriage is a very long process.
Elizabeth Goudge
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And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
Ringo Starr The Beatles
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
Soren Kierkegaard
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I realized I would be forced to run away from home if someone tried to arrange a marriage for me. I didn't want to think about it.
Elizabeth Wein
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A marriage is a partnership.
Eva Longoria