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Quotes About Marriage

a]nd the Pig Man came in from Waitomo and swore that if Louisa didn't marry him he'd damn well vote Labour at the next election. And I don't care if the country does go to rack and ruin, he said.
~ Ruth Park
A Reflexão é o anjo exterminador da espontaneidade… Se fosse verdade que a reflexão devesse controlar a inclinação amorosa, nunca haveria casamento.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Better well hanged than ill wed.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El compromiso es, desde luego, el más ridículo de todos los estados y situaciones ridículas. El matrimonio, por lo menos, tiene un sentido, aunque traiga aparejadas muchas molestias. Pero el compromiso es un invento que se debe únicamente al hombre y no honra, desde luego, a su inventor.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
But a sad fatality hung over this young girl. She had been given to seven husbands, all of whom had perished in the bride-chamber.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
C?s?toriÅ£i-v? ÅŸi o s? regretaÅ£i;nu v? c?s?toriÅ£i,ÅŸi o s? regretaÅ£i;c? faceÅ£i una sau alta,le veÅ£i regreta în aceeaÅŸi m?sur?.RâdeÅ£i de nebuniile acestei lumi,ÅŸi veÅ£i regreta;plângeÅ£i-le,ÅŸi veÅ£i regreta;c? veÅ£i râde sau veÅ£i plânge,veÅ£i regreta în aceeaÅŸi m?sur?.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Clan custom and law held that it was the public declaration of intent and then living together that made a handfasting; the ceremonies simply bore witness to it and asked blessings and luck of the Powers on the new family. He knew Christians thought that the ceremony was the marriage, though.
~ S.M. Stirling
He stared past her to the place at the other end of the dining table where Regina would sit as his wife. If she were here. If he hadn't driven her away. "I'm not sure I know how to love, Louisa." She took his hand. "Don't be silly. Loving is easy. It's finding someone to love you back that's hard.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life.
~ Salman Rushdie
Non mi piacciono i matrimoni combinati. Ci sono sbagli dei quali non bisognerebbe mai poter incolpare i propri poveri genitori.
~ Salman Rushdie
His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.
~ Salman Rushdie
Trouble in a marriage," he later wrote, "is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.
~ Salman Rushdie
Trouble in a marriage is like monsoon water accumulating on a flat roof. You don't realize it's up there, but it gets heavier and heavier, until one day, with a great crash, the whole roof falls in on your head.
~ Salman Rushdie
They had been married in the Rhodopé Building looking out at the glory of the park. They honeymooned in the same private universe and needed nothing more, neither Venice nor the Hatsheput Temple nor an island in the sun.
~ Salman Rushdie
Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?
~ Salman Rushdie
Once before, my daughter,' she said, ignoring Ahmed's continuing ravings, 'your father and I, whatsitsname, said there was no shame in leaving an inadequate husband. Now I say again: you have, whatsitsname, a man of unspeakable vileness. Go from him; go today, and take your children, whatsitsname, away from these oaths which he spews from his lips like an animal, whatsitsname, of the gutter. Take your children, I say, whatsitsname-both your children,' she said, clutching me to her bosom.
~ Salmon Rushdie
If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.
~ Joyce Brothers
Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.
~ Phyllis Diller
When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.
~ Lou Gehrig
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God's grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.
~ Alistair Begg
That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.
~ Diana L. Eck
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
~ Dolly Parton