Quotes about Marriage (page 2)

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“Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.”
Marriage
“Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.”
Marriage
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Marriage
“I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”
VerifiedThe Observer, "Sayings of the Week", August 28, 1957 · evidenceMarriage
“Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.”
— Hesiod
Marriage
“When you get married you forget about kissing other women.”
Marriage
“Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.”
Marriage
“I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.”
Marriage
“Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.”
Marriage
“I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
Marriage
“Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.”
Marriage
“Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.”
Marriage
“Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.”
— Ovid
Marriage
“Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.”
Marriage
“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
DisputedNo reliable early source found for Andrew Jackson. · evidenceMarriage
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage
“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.”
Marriage
“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
VerifiedStatement to the envoy of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg while discussing a proposal of marriage to the duke's son, Christoph. (26 January 1563), quoted by J. Horace Round in "A Visit to Queen Elizabeth," The Nineteenth Century magazine (October 1896) · evidenceMarriage