Mark Twain Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Girl Quotes

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.

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Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations. They have been out and about, on people's lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today -- that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Memories Quotes

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

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When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

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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 been married a quarter of a century.

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And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

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One should never know too precisely whom one has married

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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

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The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Family Quotes , Marriage Quotes

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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