Marriage & Partnership: Marriage Quotes

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"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night"

Saint Jerome, Saint

Saint Jerome

"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

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

George Eliot, Author

George Eliot

"Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"I like marriage. The idea"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

Toni Morrison

"Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

Rodney Dangerfield

"When I get married, it'll be no secret"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies"

Tom Hanks, Actor

Tom Hanks

"It's safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"A bachelor's life is no life for a single man"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

Samuel Goldwyn

"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

Gloria Steinem

"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage?"

Gertrude Stein, Author

Gertrude Stein

"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"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

J. Paul Getty

"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and, more or less, commit a murder of their marriage, I just don't know, but they do"

Earl Warren, Judge

Earl Warren

"Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage""

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Love is often the fruit of marriage"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Books and marriage go ill together"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

"In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

"It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

Rita Rudner

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