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Marriage Quotes by Mark Twain
- Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
- A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a…
- A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it;…
- My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.
- I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.
- What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
- God's great cosmic joke on the human race was requiring that men and women live together in marriage
- Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
- When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
- Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have…
- What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes "my dear," and "my love"…
- Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
- Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect…
- Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the…
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
- Its not true that men forget they're married when they see a pretty woman. Just the opposite, thats when they're most painfully reminded of it.
More Marriage Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk… — Marcel Achard
- Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
- It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If… — Lauren Bacall
- If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. — Richard Bach
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann
- I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this… — Michele Bachmann
- I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional… — Michele Bachmann