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Marriage Quotes - Page 3

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.13, Wordsworth Editions

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.53, Lulu.com

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

Statement to the envoy of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, January 26, 1563.

A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together toward perfection.

"Divorce". Dallin H. Oaks' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2007.