Marriage Quotes

• "He marries best who puts it off until it is too late."
  By: Henry Louis Mencken
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• "Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts."
  By: Jean Baptiste Massillon
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• "Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!"
  By: James Sheridan Knowles
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• "Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages."
  By: Florynce Kennedy
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• "Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first by showing that she made him so happy as a married man that he wishes to be so a second time."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "A married man has many cares, but a bachelor no pleasures."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty."
  By: Charles Johnson (1), Rasselas
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• "In marriage, the greater cuckold of the two is the lover."
  By: Paul Gauguin
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• "The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail according to the keel of her husband's estate; and if of high parentage, she doth not so remember what she was by birth, that she forgets what she is by match."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "Take the daughter of a good mother."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "Jars concealed are half reconciled; 'tis a double task, to stop the breach at home and men's mouths abroad. To this end, a good husband never publicly reproves his wife. An open reproof puts her to do penance before all that are present; after which, many study rather revenge than reformation."
  By: Thomas Fuller (1)
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• "You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets."
  By: Nora Ephron
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• "Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs, We who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know, That marriage, rightly understood, Gives to the tender and the good A paradise below."
  By: Nathaniel Cotton
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• "Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo that is in mariage. . . ."
  By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales--The Wife of Bath's Prologue
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