"And lips say God be pitiful, who never said, God be praised."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on religion   

"What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on god
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"Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God."

Proverb, Hasidic on fear
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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

James, William on facts
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"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."

Rutherford, Samuel on children
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"Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house."

Grizzard, Lewis on marriage   

"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments."

Carnegie, Dale on life
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"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]"

Bible on marriage   

"Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord."

Bible on marriage   

"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]"

Bible on marriage   

"When you get married you forget about kissing other women."

Boone, Pat on marriage
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on marriage
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"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night."

Corelli, Marie on marriage
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"That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked."

Cosby, Bill on marriage
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"Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give."

Daley, Cass on marriage   

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]"

Bible on marriage
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"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]"

Bible on marriage
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"Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first."

Sunday, Billy on marriage
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"Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his."

Sunday, Billy on hell   

"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."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."

Anspacher, Louis K. on marriage
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"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."

Auden, W. H. on marriage
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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."

Bagnold, Enid on marriage
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"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Barth, Joseph on marriage
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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. 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."

Beauvoir, Simone De on marriage
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"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

Beecher, Henry Ward on marriage   

"My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it."

Dangerfield, Rodney on marriage   

"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 on marriage
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"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."

Dickens, Charles on marriage
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"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."

Frost, Robert on marriage
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"Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones."

Fuller, Thomas on marriage   

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on marriage
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"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

Fuller, Thomas on marriage
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success."

Getty, J. Paul on marriage   

"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on marriage
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"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?"

Goldman, Emma on marriage   

"Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind."

Graham, James on marriage
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"Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage. And something happened sexually in marriage --the swearing to forsake all others, despite its slight observance, had a profound effect. Some people felt trapped by it, impelled to assert what they called freedom. Some accepted it like a rein, and in the effort to avoid pain in the form of hopeless desire, cut off occasions of desire, avoided having long talks at parties with attractive members of the opposite sex. In time, all feeling for the opposite sex was cut off, and intercourse limited to the barest politesses. But something happened to you when you did that, a kind of death seeped up from the genitals to the rest of the body, till it showed in the eyes, the gestures, in a certain lifelessness."

French, Marilyn on marriage