Quotes on the marriage
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Quotes on the marriage, gathered here and there....
In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
- Douglas Jerrold
Marriage a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
- Beverly Nichols
Marriage is the mother of the world and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself.
- Dr. Jeremy Taylor
There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.
- I Corinthians 13:13
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
- William Shakespeare
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore....but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Kahlil Gibran
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hark! The merry chimes are pealing,
Soft and glad the music swells,
Gaily in the night wind stealing,
Sweetly sound the wedding bells.
- Eliza Cook
Ask the child why it is born; ask the flower why it blossoms; ask the sun why it shines. I love you because I must love you.
- George P. Upton
Marriage is ever made by destiny.
- George Chapman
Two human loves make one divine.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
- Dean Stanley
Wedded love is founded on esteem.
- Elijah Fenton
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
- Old English Rhyme
Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part.
- Book of Common Prayer
When you meet someone who can cook and do housework--don't hesitate a minute--marry him.
- Unknown
When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
There is nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore
He is blessed in love alone,
Who loves for years and loves but one.
- Sir A. Hunt
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
- William Shakespeare
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
- Honore de Balzac
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one.
- Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen
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
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
- Book of Common Prayer
Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
- Emily Bronte
Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve until the last day of their existence.
- Horace
He is the half part of a blessed man
Left to be finished by such as she:
And she a fair divided excellence
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.
- William Shakespeare
Heaven give you many, many merry days.
- William Shakespeare
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
- Milton
Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts.
- William Shakespeare
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands and crystal brooks,
With silken lines and silver hooks.
- John Donne
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her "
- Agata Christie
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person
- McLaughlin
Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery...
“All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.”
– Liz Smith
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
- Addison Joseph
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
- André Maurois
I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
- Martin Luther
Chains do not hold a marriage together.
It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
- Simone Signoret
