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~ If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. ~ Ovid
~ One man's folly is another man's wife. ~ Helen Rowland ~ Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. ~ Euripides ~ It takes a loose rein to keep a marriage tight. ~ John Stevenson ~ Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. ~ Joseph Barth ~ A loving wife hears even what goes unsaid. ~ Adriano Celentano ~ Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. ~ Euripides ~ Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. ~ Voltaire ~ Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. ~ Samuel Lichtenberg ~ A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~ African Proverb ~ More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade. ~ Leo Buscaglia ~ A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. ~ Ruth Bell Graham ~ Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. ~ St. Jerome ~ A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. ~ Andre Maurois ~ When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place. ~ Helen Gahagan ~ A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. ~ Helen Rowland ~ One should never know too precisely whom one has married. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Love is a feeling, marriage is a contract, and relationships are work. ~ Lori Gordon ~ A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly. ~ Peter De Vries ~ Marriage is like life, it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. ~ Andre Maurois ~ After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters. ~ Czech Proverb ~ A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. ~ Joseph Addison ~ Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~ Stephen Leacock ~ The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. ~ Aristotle ~ The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ~ Cyril Connolly ~ Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~ Marlene Dietrich ~ The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. ~ Finley Peter Dunne ~ No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. ~ Honore de Balzac ~ One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you." ~ Robert Brault ~ When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. ~ Helen Rowland ~ The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. ~ Peter De Vries ~ Our marriage has always been a 50/50 proposition, with the possible exception of closet space. ~ Gene Perret ~ Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. ~ Leonardo da Vinci ~ Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same." ~ Robert Brault ~ A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch. ~ Robert Brault ~ Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick ~ Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. ~ Erica Jong ~ Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry. ~ Tom Mullen ~ A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. ~ Jean Rostand ~ Marriage, a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. ~ Beverley Nichols ~ Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~ Jean Rostand ~ If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. ~ Michel de Montaigne ~ In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ~ Joan Didion ~ The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. ~ H.L. Mencken ~ The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. ~ Harold Nicolson ~ Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ~ Dr. James C. Dobson ~ How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ~ Albert Einstein ~ 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 ~ Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. ~ Harlan Miller ~ What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~ George Levinger ~ That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. ~ George Eliot ~ After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her, and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. ~Helen Rowland ~ When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ 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 ~ Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~ Charles Dickens ~ Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ~ Mark Twain ~ People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ~ Sydney Smith ~ When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche |
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~ 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
~ One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ~ George MacDonald
~ One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. ~ George MacDonald