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Marriage Quotes - Page 15

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

Arndt, Bettina, Bettina Arndt (2009). “The Sex Diaries: Why Women Go Off Sex And Other Bedroom Battles”, p.60, Melbourne Univ. Publishing

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

"Learning to smile" by Nick Green, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck, Thomas Mann (1971). “Halldór Laxness, Maurice Maeterlinck [and] Thomas Mann”