Quotes with marriage

Quotes 221 till 240 of 264.

  • Cynthia Nelms The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
    Cynthia Nelms
    American painter
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  • Harriet Martineau The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Boo Weekley The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Peter de Vries The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Erica Jong There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship - only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Chatterton There is a time for all things - except marriage my dear.
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  • Alexander Theroux There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Martin Luther There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
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  • Billie Burke There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • C. S. Lewis There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Donald H. Mcgannon There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
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  • Clint Eastwood There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
    Clint Eastwood
    American actor, filmmaker and musician (1930 - )
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  • A. C. Swinburne Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Christopher Hampton To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
    A Woman of No Importance
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Burgess Owens Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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