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Quotes About Marriage

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
~ David Eddings
Now what?" Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. "Am I disturbing your Majesty?" Prala asked. "…You always disturb me, my beloved," he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
~ David Eddings
Some day, Prince Kheldar, you will fall in love, the queen said with a little smirk, and the twelve kingdoms will stand around and chortle over the fall of so notorious a bachelor.
~ David Eddings
The priest DID have it coming, though, Lelldorin declared hotly. What priest? The priest of Chaldan at that little chapel who wouldn't marry us because Arianna couldn't give him a document proving she had her family's consent. He was very insulting. Did you break anything? A few of his teeth is about all-- and I stopped hitting him as soon as he agreed to perform the ceremony.
~ David Eddings
You'll fight with each other, of course, but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.
~ David Eddings
In spite of this universal plunge toward matrimony, I still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run.
~ David Eddings
you wouldn't really expect a girl to get married without her mother in attendance, would you?
~ David Eddings
You'll fight with each other, of course," she told him as they danced, "but never go to sleep angry. That was always my mistake.
~ David Eddings
Un époux, c'est quelqu'un qui travaille au jardin avec toi et qui te réchauffe la nuit dans le lit conjugal. Un homme qui s'inquiète pour toi quand personne d'autre n'a remarqué que tu n'allais pas bien. Quelqu'un qui te tient la main quand tu es malade ou aux portes de la mort.
~ David Farland
The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.
~ David Finch
If two people get married in West Virginia and then pull up stakes and move to Massachusetts and then if they decide they want to get a divorce, what's the biggest problem getting a divorce?
~ David Foster Wallace
She would- never mind. She was his servant. Slave mentality. This was not the girl I asked to marry me. She was his slave and believed she knew only joy...where was my wife? What was this creature she stroked and sucked at...
~ David Foster Wallace
To become an abstraction: The Mother, Down On One Knee. This was life after he came - she orbits him, I chart her movements. That she could call him a blessing, the sun in her sky. She was no more the girl that I'd married.
~ David Foster Wallace
And I'll say that I felt something dark in my heart when my husband almost nudged me there. I felt that it was a sorry business indeed when my own spouse couldn't tell I was being serious. And I told him so.
~ David Foster Wallace
Fear and desire are already married. Freely. One's impaled the other since B.C. What you're scared of has always been what moved you. And where you're heading has always been your real end - your desire.
~ David Foster Wallace
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding. But since I'm married, except renewing, of course, I give you my honour I've not touched a bit of stamped paper.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Amelia stood scared and silent as William thus suddenly broke the chain by which she held him, and declared his independence and superiority. He had placed himself at her feet so long that the poor little woman had been accustomed to trample upon him. She didn't wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him. She wished to give him nothing, but that he should give her all. It is a bargain not unfrequently levied in love.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
have recovered the shock of losing him. It was his counsel had brought about this marriage, and all that was to ensue from it. And why was it?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
And this I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the fields, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us if they did.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
~ William Shakespeare
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage...
~ William Shakespeare
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
~ William Shakespeare