| Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity--everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul. |
| - Thomas Moore |
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| In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums. |
| - Douglas Jerrold |
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| Marriage is love personified. |
| - Phoenix Flame |
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I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. |
| - W.B. Yeats |
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| Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| 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 |
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| When you make a sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. |
| - Joseph Campbell |
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| When you meet someone who can cook and do housework--don't hesitate a minute--marry him. |
| - Unknown |
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| Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose. |
| - Beverly Nichols |
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| Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. |
| - Plautus |
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| One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. |
| - Honore de Balzac |
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| There are three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. |
| - I Corinthians 13:13 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. |
| .- Milton |
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| 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 |
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| Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same. |
| - Emily Bronte |
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| A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. |
| - Rainer Maria Rilke |
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Two souls with but a single thought,
Two heart that beat as one. |
| - Franz Joseph von Munch-Bellinghausen |
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| We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. |
| - Sam Keen |
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| Now join hands, and with your hands your hearts. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. |
| - Old English Rhyme |
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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 |
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| Wedlock or deadlock? That is the question! |
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| Why such a big deal? What excitement, what commotion and fuss - over a single hour of one day in our life! |
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| Is marriage much ado about nothing - or something much to do about everything? |
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| Why do people still get married as they have been since times immemorial? Why, if half later get divorced? |
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| Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. |
| - Aristotle |
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| A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
| - Germaine Greer |
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| 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 |
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| To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. |
| - Lao Tzu |
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| It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. |
| - Arthur Rubinstein |
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| Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar. |
| - Robert Frost |
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| There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. |
| - Homer |
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| Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. |
| - Roy Goodman |
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| Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. |
| ~Michael Leunig |
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| Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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| Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. |
| . ~Author Unknown |
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| Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. |
| - Author Unknown |
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| Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single. |
| - Author Unknown |
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| Are we not like two volumes of one book? |
| - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore |
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| I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life |
| - Rita Rudner |
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| Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. |
| - Peter Devries |
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| A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. |
| - Author Unknown |
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| All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. |
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| Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. |
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I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife. |
| - Author Unknown |
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| Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. |
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| Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. |
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| Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. |
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