Marriage Quotes

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Hannah Arendt: “The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which ‘the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one’s skin or color or race’ are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’ proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.” more

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Hafiz of Persia: “The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.”

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Amy Bloom: “In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on, and even, frankly, worth divorcing over, both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. 'Deserves' is not the point. And 'owes' is certainly not the point. The pont is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get.”

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Paul Newman: “I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?”

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Peter De Vries: “The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly.”

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Doug Larson: “More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.”

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Ellen Goodman : “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”

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Simone Signoret: “Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.”

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Anna Quindlen: “I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.”

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Erma Bombeck: “Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”

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Al Gore: “You can't be value free when it comes to marriage.”

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Joseph Campbell: “When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. ”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: “What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.”

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Paul Newman: “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”

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Mark Twain: “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.”

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Barbara De Angelis: “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”

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Barbara De Angelis: “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”

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Julia Child: “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.”

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Barbara De Angelis: “Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.”

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Bruce Fisher and Robert Alberti: “Many people marry for the wrong reasons, among them 1) to overcome loneliness, 2) to escape an unhappy parental home, 3) because they think that everyone is expected to marry, 4) because only 'losers' who can't find someone to marry stay single, 5) out of a need to parent, or be parented by another person, 6) because they got pregnant, 7) because 'we fell in love,' ... and on goes the list.”

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Susan Faludi: “The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.”

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Gloria Steinem: “Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ”

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Barack Obama: “Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!”

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Booth Tarkington: “An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

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Barack Obama: “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.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.”

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Dick Gregory: “Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.”

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Gay Hendricks: “One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.”

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Will Rogers: “Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.”