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(#1) The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
- Barbara De Angelis
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(#2) When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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(#3) Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
- Barbara De Angelis
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(#4) Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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(#5) Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
- Joyce Brothers
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(#6) Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. -- Genesis 2:24
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(#7) A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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(#8) It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
- Honoré de Balzac
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(#9) As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
- Josh Billings
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(#10) All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
- George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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(#11) The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
- Cyril Connolly
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(#12) If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
- Thomas Fuller
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(#13) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. -- Ephesians 5:25
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(#14) To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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(#15) Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. -- 1 Peter 3:7
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(#16) Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
- John Lennon
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(#17) When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
- Aeschylus
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(#18) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
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(#19) Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
- W. H. Auden
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(#20) Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
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(#21) 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. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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(#22) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
- Jane Austen
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(#23) In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
- Enid Bagnold
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(#24) Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
- Zig Ziglar
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(#25) Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
- Heinrich Heine
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(#26) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
- Jean Kerr
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(#27) A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
- Honoré de Balzac
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(#28) I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.
- Diana, Princess of Wales
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(#29) Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- Francis Bacon
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(#30) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
- Joseph Addison
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(#31) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
- Ambrose Bierce
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(#32) Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
- Jean de La Bruyère
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(#33) Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
- William Congreve
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(#34) When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.
- Charles Dickens
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(#35) The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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(#36) One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
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(#37) Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
- Robert Frost
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(#38) When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
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(#39) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson
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(#40) A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
- André Maurois
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(#41) Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- Jane Austen
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(#42) I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
- John Barrymore
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(#43) She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.
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(#44) The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
- Woody Allen
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(#45) For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. -- Matthew 22:30
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(#46) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
- Katharine Hepburn
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(#47) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
- G. K. Chesterton
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(#48) Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce
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(#49) One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
- Robert Burton
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(#50) I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
- George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
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