Quotes about marriage

"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."

Eliot, George on marriage   

"I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married."

Elizabeth I on marriage   

"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on marriage   

"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!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on marriage
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"When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony."

Farquhar, George on marriage   

"Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?"

Ferber, Edna on marriage   

"When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on."

Fielding, Henry on marriage   

"One fool at least in every married couple."

Fielding, Henry on marriage   

"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."

Ford, Richard on marriage
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"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."

Fox, Michael J. on marriage   

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife."

Franklin, Benjamin 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   

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

Fuller, Thomas 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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"I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa 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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"To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!"

Gaskell, Elizabeth on marriage   

"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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"In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part."

Goldman, Emma on marriage   

"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   

"You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam."

Goldsmith, Oliver on marriage   

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

Graham, James on marriage
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"Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed."

Greer, Germaine on marriage
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"I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married."

Grizzard, Lewis on marriage   

"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   

"Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse."

Halen on marriage
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"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning."

Harrison, Jane on marriage
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"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."

Heilbrun, Carolyn on marriage
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"Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented."

Heine, Heinrich on marriage
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"Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock."

Hemingway, Ernest on marriage   

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn, Katharine on marriage
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"Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood."

Hesiod on marriage   

"When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it."

Hitopadesa on marriage