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Wedding and marriage
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| Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman
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| Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S. journalist.
“Syncopations,” A Guide to Men (1922). |
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There’s so much saint in the worst of
them,And so much devil in the best of them,That a woman who’s
married to one of them,Has nothing to learn of the rest of them. |
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Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S.
journalist. “The Refrain,” A Guide to Men (1922). |
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Marriage is the operation by which a
woman’s vanity and a man’s egotism are extracted without an
anesthetics. |
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Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S.
journalist. “Third Interlude,” A Guide to Men (1922). |
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers
guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing. |
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Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S.
journalist. “Third Interlude,” A Guide to Men (1922). |
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Falling in love consists merely in
uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. |
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Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S.
journalist. “Variations,” A Guide to Men (1922). |
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France may claim the happiest marriages
in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are “made in
America.” |
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Helen Rowland (1875–1950), U.S.
journalist. “What Every Woman Wonders,” A Guide to Men (1922). |
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“End of tomorrow.
Don’t try to start the car or look deeper
Into the eternal wimpling of the sky: luster
On luster, transparency floated onto the topmost layer
Until the whole thing overflows like a silver
Wedding cake or Christmas tree, in a cascade of tears.”
Author: Ashbery, John
Categories: endings; sky |
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“I can make you happy,” said he to the back of her head, across the
bush. “You shall have a piano in a year or two—farmers’ wives are
getting to have pianos now—and I’ll practice up the flute right well
to play with you in the evenings.”
“Yes; I should like that.”
“And have one of those little ten-pound gigs for market—and nice
flowers, and birds—cocks and hens I mean, because they can be useful,”
continued Gabriel, feeling balanced between poetry and practicality.
“I should like it very much.”
“And a frame for cucumbers—like a gentleman and lady.”
“Yes.”
“And when the wedding was over, we’d have it put in the newspaper
lists of marriages.”
“Dearly I should like that!”
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Categories: men and women; marriage; promises |
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Author: Schiller, Friedrich Von
Category: weddings |
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A matchmaker after a wedding is like a fan after autumn.
Categories: middleman; ingratitude; forgetting
Attribution: Chinese proverb. |
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And then having ended this merry wedding,
The bride looked as fresh as a queen;
And so they returned to the merry greenwood,
Amongst the leaves so green.
Author: Unknown
Category: weddings |
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And thus Snow White became the prince’s bride.
The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
and when she arrived there were
red-hot iron shoes,
in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
clamped upon her feet.
Author: Sexton, Anne
Category: marriage |
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Come away!
For you shall hence upon your wedding day.
Author: Shakespeare, William
Categories: marriage; traveling and travelers |
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Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the
wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out
her “happily ever after”: The princess gets pregnant and hopes for
sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to
be a good wife. We don’t hear whether or not she’s a good mother,
unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has
been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his
life.
Authors: Debold, Elizabeth; Wilson, Marie; Malave, Idelisse
Categories: marriage, historical perspectives; women; achievement |
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Girls usually have a papier mâché face on their wedding day.
Author: Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette]
Category: weddings |
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He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years’ child:
The Mariner hath his will.
Author: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Categories: weddings; hypnosis and hypnotists |
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Reunion after long separation is even better than one’s wedding night.
Categories: marriage; reunion
Attribution: Chinese proverb. |
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Our wedding day, twenty years ago! A happy day. Darling is handsomer
than she was then, with a glorious flow of friendly feeling and
cheerfulness, genuine womanly character, a most affectionate mother, a
good, good wife. How I love her! What a lucky man I was and am!
Author: Hayes, Rutherford Birchard
Categories: marriage; love |
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O God, and the wedding! All her family and her friends
and only a handful of mine all scroungy and bearded
just wait to get at the drinks and food—
Author: Corso, Gregory
Category: weddings |
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest
accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient
child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to
ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Author: Bagnold, Enid
Category: marriage
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I wear my wedding ring
He will cut off your finger
And the blood will linger
Little bird!
Author: Tate, Allen
Category: marriage |
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You remind me of a child-friend who once wrote to tell me about her
sister being married. “Now I will tell you all about Bessie’s
wedding.” Then came a long account of bridesmaids, and breakfast, and
everything else, except the name of the bride-groom! That of course
didn’t matter: the great thing was to get married somehow.
Author: Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Lewis
Categories: weddings; grooms
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How happy a thing were a wedding,
And a bedding,
If a man might purchase a wife
For a twelvemonth and a day;
Author: Flatman, Thomas
Category: marriage |
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Well, the wedding is over, the good folks are joined for better for
worse—a shocking clause that!—’tis preparing one to lead a long
journey, and to know the path is not altogether strewed with roses.
Author: Burney, Frances
Category: marriage |
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Well of all things in the world, I don’t suppose anything can be so
dreadful as a public wedding—my stars!—I should never be able to
support it!
Author: Burney, Frances
Category: weddings |
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Wedding is great Juno’s crown,
O blessed bond of board and bed!
‘Tis Hymen peoples every town,
High wedlock then be honorèd.
Honor, high honor, and renown
To Hymen, god of every town!
Author: Shakespeare, William
Categories: marriage; people |
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We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the
burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best life;
and if we set out upon that principle, and are mindful to keep it up,
and give due attention and aid to the progress of love thus brought
into the well ordered well sheltered garden, we may enjoy I believe as
much happiness as is consistent with the imperfection of our present
state of being.
Author: Boswell, James
Categories: marriage; love |
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The wind blew all my wedding-day,
And my wedding-night was the night of the high wind....
Author: Larkin, Philip
Category: weddings |
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The wedding was a quiet affair, and when called upon to enjoy my
promotion from lodger to lover did I experience only bitterness and
distaste? No.
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
Categories: marriage; weddings |
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The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
Author: Rich, Adrienne
Categories: marriage; oppression; women |
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The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not
let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.
Author: Cooley, Mason
Category: boredom |
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