Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Love Quotes, Marriage Quotes

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

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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 counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

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He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

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I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

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The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

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Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

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Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger.

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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

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But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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