Marriage
Quotes - Visitors are not permitted to see me twice
“People
go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them
may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a
life's discomfort.”
―
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
“I
really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in
love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be
accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very
essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to
forget the fact.”
―
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Almost
every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It
is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. ”
―
Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
“I
do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married
men.”
―
Nikola Tesla
“Women
may fall when there's no strength in men.
―
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Love
without sacrifice is like theft”
―
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical
Aphorisms
“The
remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and
forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in
separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up
their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a
time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in
marriage.”
―
Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal
Our Hearts and Homes
“I
was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.”
―
Groucho Marx
“So,"
he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely
conversation and all, at what age will you be entertaining offers of marriage?"
"You
think it'll be so easy?" she called back over her shoulder. "No way.
There will be tasks. Like in a fairy tale."
"Sounds
dangerous."
"Very,
so think twice."
"No
need," he said. "You're worth it.”
―
Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
“When
looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad
boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not
marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good
husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal
partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious.
Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share
in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.”
―
Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“Getting
married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
―
Mae West
“Visitors
are not permitted to see me twice. You will have to join the cult in order to
do so. If the visitor sees me for the second time, he does not recognize me.”
―
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
“On
our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow
it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I
will be wed only to myself. You will most likely choke to death on your own
blood, which will be unfortunate, but I will be both husband and wife and
therefore not a widow to be pitied.”
―
Kiersten White, And I Darken
“Whoa,
I'm your girlfriend now?"
Archer
shrugged. "We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a
lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.”
―
Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound
“When
I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were
married.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“To
keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're
wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.”
―
Ogden Nash
“Such
silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.”
―
Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
“I
know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold
myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am
my husband's life as fully as he is mine.”
―
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I
know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now.
Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you
are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know
that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men
maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are
uneducated Laila. No chance.”
―
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
“You
are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
―
Grace Willows, To Kiss a King
“The
best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest
calling. I hope I am ready.”
―
Nancy E. Turner
“I
married a damned cereal killer”
―
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nobody's Baby But Mine
“One
can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of
one's life with her.”
―
W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“I've
no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven and if the
wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low I shouldn't have thought
of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now so he shall never know how I
love him and that not because he's handsome Nelly but because he's more myself
than I am. Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same and
Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire.”
―
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
