Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

A good marriage is where both people feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal.
~Anne Lamott

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
~Franz Schubert

EndQuote:
Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
~William Wordsworth

 

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Exercise Prompt for 05/10:   parent

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It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I’m just a kid. I don’t need that kind of trouble.
~Kenny: Attributed to a 7-year-old when asked if it’s better to be single or married

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Posted from the Grove

In love there are two things – bodies and words.
~Joyce Carol Oates

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.
~Mignon McLaughlin

It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as “the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.”
~Alexander Woollcott

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Video:
~John Krasinski:  Some Good News
A timeless pleasure in the time of COVID, with surprise guests; past episodes worth revisiting   (#1-5, time varies, 15-20 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1zIgTwENPg&list=PL_7yEns96WJN5JtKJIL7Kw2_HUuiTjPdq

 

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Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
~Beverley Nichols

If you want to read about love and marriage, you’ve got to buy two separate books.
~Alan King

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~Olmeto:  Reception    (21:34)
2 strangers at a wedding reception, a conversation, a love story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ncrJM4gd4

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~Omeleto:  First Sight   (13:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGfxcR5bnBY

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~NY Times:  A Kiss Deferred    (3:46)
https://vimeo.com/135288462

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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
~Pliny the Elder

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.
~Mignon McLaughlin

Marriage is a gamble, let’s be honest.
~Yoko Ono

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Music:

~Allie McBeal:  Wedding Bell Blues   (1:54)

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~David Bowie:  Modern Love   (3:49)

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~James Kinney:  Get Me to the Church on Time   (1:34)

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Marriage, n. A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two.
~Ambrose Bierce

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
~Mignon McLaughlin

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
~Anne Taylor Fleming

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Love is grand; divorce a hundred grand.
~Author unknown

Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
~Lewis Grizzard

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
~Tommy Manville

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
~Lyndon B Johnson

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
~Woody Allen

I’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had, I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
~Jimmy Carter

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel – they get to know each other better.
~Goethe

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@Writers Platform

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
~Goethe

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn’t marry me.
~Robert Brault

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Exercise Prompt:  marriage

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~BarTalk:

Blessings

As seas wed sky at world’s horizon
And stars join Earth yoked at the skyline
Dusk yields to night’s release from labor
Ere dawn gives rise to married favor

Pray that love not fail, nor let it falter
To meet in marriage at God’s binding altar
Embrace this union’s ordained creation
Make two as One this blessed occasion

For: Brother John & Kim (05/02/20)

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Swear An Oath

Miss Match wed the Black Knight
Dastard, his lies next her starlight
Her facts to bed his open fiction
Miss Liberty and the Dark Side
Do marry up for this election

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5-7-5-7-7

science without soul
married soulless politics
stepped on fewer toes
than passionate religion
with privileged access to God

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5-7-5 x 2

the test of success
pandemics and politics
married or divorced
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happied with good news
delivered CO-VIDeo’d
merried with chilled rents

 

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Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.
~Becca Fitzpatrick

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
~Robert Breault

In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
~Robert Brault

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Curated Quotes on Marriage: Happily Married, Humor, On Being Married, Marriage: Fail, Divorce

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Harvested from:  azquotes.com, curatedquotes.com, quotegarden.com

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