Quotes with marriage

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  • John Steinbeck A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Billy Collins A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Anthony Trollope A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Queen Victoria A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • André Maurois A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Walter Bagehot A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Lorrie Moore A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
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    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • André Maurois A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Helen Rowland After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ann Landers All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Lord George Byron All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Florence King American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bette Davis An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Benigno Aquino III As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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