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  • Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

    Love   Marriage   Eye  
  • I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

  • Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love.

  • In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

    Marriage   Wise   Wedding  
    William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.26
  • What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

  • Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  • A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

    Marriage   Jobs   Sex  
  • I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.

    Two   People   Together  
    Source: www.slate.com
  • Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

  • To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

    "The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version".
  • Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.

    Love   Funny   Marriage  
  • Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.

    Men   Clothes   Dresses  
    EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”
  • Now, I'm not against sex before marriage, but two minutes before? When the organist played "Here Comes the Bride".

    Funny   Sex   Humorous  
  • Judge and prosecutor had hammered it home that Lady Chatterly was an immoral woman, that she had had sexual relations before marriage, that she had committed adultery under her husband's roof; as if these charges somehow disqualified her from participation in serious literature. Indeed, there were long periods of the trial during which an outsider might well have assumed that a divorce case was being heard.

    Husband   Home   Divorce  
    "Lady Chatterly's Trial (The Old Bailey, 20 October - 2 November 1960)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 409, 1967.
  • A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

    'The Spectator' no. 475, 4 September 1712
  • In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

  • If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.

    Funny   Girl   Strong  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

    "Did Lolo Jones Offer Up Too Much Information?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2012.
  • The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.

    Rudolf Dreikurs (2013). “The Challenge of Marriage”, p.80, Taylor & Francis
  • Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

    Love   Marriage   Verbs  
  • Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

  • So remember, if marriage arises out of intimacy then it is beautiful. That means that everybody should have lived together before they get married. The honeymoon should not happen after marriage, it should happen before marriage. One should have lived the dark nights, the beautiful days, the sad moments, the happy moments, together. One should have looked into each other's eyes deeply, into each other's being.

  • The rapid, sweeping deterioration of values is characterized by a preoccupation-even an obsession-with the procreative act. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity within it are openly scoffed at-marriage and parenthood ridiculed as burdensome, unnecessary. Modesty, a virtue of a refined individual or society, is all but gone.

  • I was a Christian. I didn't want to have sex before marriage, I was a bit uptight and not very self-confident. I was a virgin until I was 26.

    Christian   Sex   Self  
    "What I know about women". Interview with Jon Bennett, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.
  • Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

    Samuel Richardson (1856). “Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative”, p.298
  • I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.

    Sex   Crazy   Believe  
    "Selling the sisters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.
  • But one thing is certain: the commandments have not changed. Let there be no mistake about that. Right is still right. Wrong is still wrong, no matter how cleverly cloaked in respectability or political correctness. We believe in chastity before marriage and fidelity ever after. That standard is an absolute standard of truth. It is neither subject to public opinion polls nor dependent upon situation or circumstance. There is no need to debate it or other gospel standards.

  • A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby
  • What we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

    Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.61, Moody Publishers
  • I've always been the kind of person that if I take on anything professionally it means commitment to me, so you take it on if you can commit to it and if you know you can accommodate and give your best to it and that's what you do, and I have always done that throughout my life - before marriage, after marriage, before motherhood, after motherhood.

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