Marriage quotes
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"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar."
"But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection."
"Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!"
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
"The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree."
"Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light."
"Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing."
"Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins."
"My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that."
"Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it."
"If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints."
"Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce."
"They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins."
"If marriage were only bed, we could have made it."
"Marriage can wait, education cannot."
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
"A man's wife has more power over him than the state has."
"To me, a spouse should be a life partner AND a business partner. Just like any good partner, her strengths must make up for my weaknesses and vice versa."
