Marriage Quotes

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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable. -- George Ade

The Lord Chief Justice was once asked by a lady what was the maximum punishment for bigamy: Two Mothers in Law. -- Lord Russel of Killowen

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. -- Henry Ward Beecher

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland

If you are afraid of loneliness do not marry. -- Anton Checkhov, Russian writer

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. -- Socrates

Wedding Quotes

Going to one wedding brings another. -- Jane Austen

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Married men live longer than single men, or at least they complain more about it. -- Don Herold

Second marriage: the triumph of hope over experience. -- Samuel Johnson

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory. -- Abraham Lincoln

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H.L. Mencken

In the fate of a woman, marriage is the most important crisis: it fixes her in a state of all others the most happy, or the most wretched. -- Mackenzie, Julia de Roubigne

No man is lost when a good wife has found him. -- Daniel Defoe

A man isn't married but once in his life. -- Locke, A Paper City

Comedies and romances always end with a marriage, because, after that, there is nothing to be said. -- Mackenzie

I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines
-- George Chapman

The fatal shafts unerring move,
I bow before thine altar, Love
-- Smollet

Those marriages generally abound with love and constancy that are preceded by a long courtship. The passion should strike root and gather strength before marriage be grafted on it, -- Joseph Addison

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part. -- The Book of Common Prayer

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. -- The Book of Common prayer

Blondel regards his wife as his mistress. He says that that keeps theflame of love alight, and that as he never had a mistress worthy of beinga wife, he is delighted to have a wife worthy of being a mistress. -- Casanova

Every man receives the wife he deserves. -- Sotah 2, Tales and Teachings of the Rabbis (Were they being sarcastic?)

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with
One to show a woman when he loves her
-- Robert Browning

Two human loves make one divine. -- Elizabeth Browning (wife of the above)

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing;a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Marriage means tyranny on one side and deceit on the other. -- Anthony Trollope

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