Marriage Quotes

• "Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."
  By: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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• "One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again."
  By: Judith Viorst
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• "The following "marriage" maxims (11-20) are worthy of more than a hasty reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands:-- 11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,--it is a meanness. 12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during absence. 13. Never meet without a loving welcome. 14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance. 15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness. 16. Never forget the happy hours of early love. 17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is. 18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His blessing alone can make it what it should ever be. 19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the narrow way. 20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home."
  By: Unknown, Cottager and Artisan
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• "The following "marriage" maxims ( 1-10) are worthy of more than a hasty reading. Husbands should not pass them by, for they are designed for wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands:-- 1. The very nearest approach to domestic happiness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness. 2. Never both be angry at once. 3. Never talk at one another, either alone or in company. 4. Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire. 5. Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other. 6. Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each. 7. Never find fault unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly. 8. Never taunt with a past mistake. 9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another. 10. Never allow a request to be repeated."
  By: Unknown, Cottager and Artisan
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• "When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being."
  By: Martin Farquhar Tupper
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• "Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
  By: William Makepeace Thackeray
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• "An obedient wife commands her husband."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson
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• "A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "A good wife is heaven's last best gift to man; his angel and minister of graces innumerable; his gem of many virtues; his casket of jewels; her voice his sweet music; her smiles his brightest day; her kiss the guardian of his innocence; her arms the pale of his safety, the balm of his health, the balsam of his life; her industry, his surest wealth; her economy, his safest steward; her lips, his faithful counselors; her bosom, the softest pillow of his cares; and her prayers, the ablest advocates of heaven's blessings on his head."
  By: Jeremy Taylor
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• "I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
  By: Gloria Swanson, quoted in the New York "Times"
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• "Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage."
  By: Gloria Steinem
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• "I can't mate in captivity."
  By: Gloria Steinem
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• "The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of humor."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse."
  By: Benjamin Spock
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