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Marriage Quotes

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"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
Joey Adams
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
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"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
Iris Murdoch
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."
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"While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage."
Timothy J. Keller
"While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage."
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"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
Bianca Jagger
"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
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"No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect."
Sophie Kinsella
"No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect."
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"Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman."
Judy Biggert
"Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman."
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"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
Ogden Nash
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
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"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
Johnny Weissmuller
"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
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"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
Linda McCartney
"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
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"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."
Edgar Watson Howe
"Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising."
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"Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree."
Richard Harris
"Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree."
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"Marriage is socialism among two people."
Barbara Ehrenreich
"Marriage is socialism among two people."
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"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."
Mark Ruffalo
"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."
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"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
Eva Gabor
"Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once."
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"It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed."
Carrie Underwood
"It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed."
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"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."
Andre Maurois
"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."
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"Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway."
Erica Jong
"Maybe marriages are best in middle age. When all the nonsense falls away and you realize you have to love one another because you're going to die anyway."
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"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest."
Yoko Ono
"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest."
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"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman."
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"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
Benjamin Franklin
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."
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"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
Paul Begala
"I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?"
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"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
Brigitte Bardot
"Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?"
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"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
Isadora Duncan
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
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"I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman."
Jimmy Swaggart
"I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman."
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"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
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"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land."
Rod Parsley
"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land."
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"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means."
Dodie Smith
"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means."
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"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
Marc Chagall
"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."
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"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
Judy Biggert
"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
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"I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly."
Cathy Freeman
"I'm not a marriage expert, quite clearly."
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"I may as well say it, I have been married three times."
C. L. R. James
"I may as well say it, I have been married three times."
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"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
Shana Alexander
"When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband."
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"Marriage is a great institution."
Elizabeth Taylor
"Marriage is a great institution."
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"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
Iris Murdoch
"One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance."
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"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
Max Lerner
"The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move."
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"A righteous wife is a respectful wife."
Habeeb Akande
"A righteous wife is a respectful wife."
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"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
Denis Diderot
"The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population."
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"Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career."
Sam Ewing
"Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career."
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"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."
Isaac Asimov
"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."
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"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
Paul Getty
"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
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"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
Demi Moore
"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."
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"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it."
Helen Reddy
"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it."
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"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."
Tim Murphy
"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."
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"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
Joseph Barbera
"My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned."
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"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."
Michelle Shocked
"Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done."
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"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."
Andre Maurois
"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."
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"It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility."
David Duchovny
"It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility."
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"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
Helen Reddy
"I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them."
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"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."
Keith Richards
"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."
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"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race."
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