Marriage
The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
The marriage vow or contract.
A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.
Any intimate or close union.
In bezique, penuchle, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit. If of the trump suit, it is called a royal marriage.
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Marriage Quotations
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
Mark Twain
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marriage Translations
marriage in Afrikaans is huwelik
marriage in Dutch is huwelijk, echt, echtverbintenis
marriage in French is mariage
marriage in German is Heirat, Heirat, Ehe
marriage in Italian is sposalizio, sposalizio, matrimonio
marriage in Latin is matrimonium
marriage in Norwegian is ekteskap
marriage in Spanish is casamiento, matrimonio, casamiento
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