Best Quotes About Marriage (Top 100)
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus
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When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Leo Tolstoy
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Khalil Gibran
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
Lewis Grizzard
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
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We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson
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Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
Leo Tolstoy
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
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It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Martin Luther
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.
William Wordsworth
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Erica Jong
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Groucho Marx
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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I'd have to give it up.
Mae West
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
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It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.
Peter McWilliams
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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx
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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
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There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta Garbo
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. Buscaglia
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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
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The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.
Judith McNaught
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.
Brigitte Nielsen
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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
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Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
Gary Zukav
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I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.
Sylvester Stallone
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The first duty of love is to listen.
Paul Tillich
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
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My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.
Joyce Brothers
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby
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If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
Gary Smalley
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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
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Leo Buscaglia
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As I grow to understand life less and less,I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard
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I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.
Johnny Cash
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
Amy Bloom
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Guy de Maupassant
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
Abraham Lincoln
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Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.
Barbara Johnson
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Equal rights for all, special privileges for none
Thomas Jefferson
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People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert
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I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono
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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
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The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.
Alfred Hitchcock
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
Chanakya
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
Mae West
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Jean Kerr
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In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin
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I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them—it was that promise.
Thornton Wilder
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Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr
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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
B. R. Ambedkar
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The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.
Bruce R. McConkie
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry
Even More Marriage Quotes
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
Joe Murray
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our first and last love is self-love.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.
Woody Allen
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis
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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
Red Skelton
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The most dangerous food is wedding cake
James Thurber
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Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
Oprah Winfrey
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The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I
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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
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Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante
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A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle
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You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
Greta Garbo
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
Alexander Theroux
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In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
Bill Moyers
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Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.
Johnny Carson
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Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
Burt Reynolds
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Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush
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Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck
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Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant
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Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage
Gloria Steinem
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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.
William Penn
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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller
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If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.
Greta Garbo
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor
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We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.
Raquel Welch
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
John Lyly
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
Ogden Nash
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha Guitry
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst
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Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
Jane Austen
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
Colin Chapman
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The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
Amy Grant
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
Igor Stravinsky
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A good husband makes a good wife.
John Florio
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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
Thomas Hardy
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
Howard Gardner
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Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.
Muhammad
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
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Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
Paul Hornung
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Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.
Maryon Pearson
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
George Bernard Shaw
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The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.
Edward Dahlberg
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A sacrament—like marriage—means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
Jodi Picoult
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Mark Twain
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For you wake one day, look around and say, somebody wonderful married me.
Fred Ebb
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
Helen Rowland
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Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory
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Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn
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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
Heinrich Heine
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A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
Voltaire
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In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.
Lucy Stone
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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.
Enid Bagnold
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In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
Theodor Reik
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
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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.
Barbara de Angelis
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
Andre Maurois
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Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert
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Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Heinrich Heine
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
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Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
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The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.
David Viscott
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
Erica Jong
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries
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Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Helen Rowland
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When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson
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For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
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When David Arquette and I got engaged we started therapy together. I'd heard that the first year of marriage is the hardest, so we decided to work through all that stuff early.
Courteney Cox
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The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
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Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.
Neil Simon
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Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
Eddie Cantor
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Sacha Guitry
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
Francis Picabia
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
Arturo Toscanini
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner
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Love is so much better when you're not married.
Maria Callas
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
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If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
Ann Landers
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
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As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
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Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
Sam Levenson
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Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.
Jim DeMint
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My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
Rita Rudner
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen
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You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?
Jane Smiley
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
Boris Pasternak
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In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
Woody Allen
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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
Gerald Brenan
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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.
Helen Rowland
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A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland
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Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus
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I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore
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Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
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No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosby
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Elizabeth Taylor
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I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.
Noel Coward
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
Peter Ustinov
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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
Rita Rudner
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Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?
Sue Townsend
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Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.
Jill Bennett
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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Louis K Anspacher
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a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Rainer Maria Rilke
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington
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The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.
Denis Diderot
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
Douglas William Jerrold
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A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams
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There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
Clifford Odets
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand
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It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Euripides
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Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.
Anthony Weiner
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
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Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
Mickey Rooney
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
Ingrid Bergman
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It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
Herbert Samuel
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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
Joseph Barth
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Oh! How many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.
Colley Cibber
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Christopher Hampton
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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
Helen Rowland
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All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.
Richard L. Evans
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Thomas Love Peacock
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I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Anne Stevenson
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Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
George Eliot
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Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
Eva Gabor
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Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Alan King
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Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Dora Russell
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Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren
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The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.
Bill Cosby
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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.
Dennis Rainey
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My wife doesn't care what I do when I'm away, as long as I don't have a good time.
Lee Trevino
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In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.
David O. McKay
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West
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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.
Marie Osmond
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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
Anna Nicole Smith
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
Samuel Rogers
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
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This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
Earl Wilson
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere
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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock
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You have to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.
Kevin Bacon
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Pearl S. Buck
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I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
Dick Martin
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I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.
Mickey Rooney
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.
Dodie Smith
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It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve
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The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.
Andrew Sullivan
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Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
Patricia Arquette
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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville
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We want playmates we can own.
Jules Feiffer
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After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant Joshi
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast
Friedrich von Schiller
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All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
Voltaire
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I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
Lee Grant
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West
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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel
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A little weeping, a little wheedling, a little self-degradation, a little careful use of our advantages, and then some man will say .Come, be my wife! With good looks and youth marriage is easy to attain. There are men enough; but a woman who has sold herself, even for a ring and a new name, need hold her skirt aside for no creature in the street. They both earn their bread in one way. Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
Olive Schreiner
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Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
Kin Hubbard
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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
Cass Daley
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Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx
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Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.
Helen Rowland
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Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Joseph Campbell
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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
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If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.
George Ade
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A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.
Fannie Hurst
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The main problem in marriage is that for a man sex is a hunger like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he goes to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what is important is love and romance.
Joan Fontaine
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We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.
Richard Henry Stoddard
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There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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After 7 years of marriage, I am sure of 2 things: First, never wallpaper together and second, you'll need 2 bathrooms . . . both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
Dennis Miller
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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
Jim Backus
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
Katharine Hepburn
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.
Helen Rowland
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There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.
Thomas Chatterton
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.
Judith Wright
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw
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Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
Rita Rudner
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A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.
Barbara Cartland
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Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Gloria Steinem
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Helen Rowland
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The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.
Stephanie Coontz
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
Will Cuppy
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A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship — a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.
Anthony Storr
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
William Bolitho
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The marriage didn't work out but the separation is great.
Liz Smith
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There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
Sacha Guitry
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man
Edgar Watson Howe
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I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
Catherine Deneuve
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The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.
J. Ogden Armour
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A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life
Irish Sayings
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
Jean Rostand
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People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau
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The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
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I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].
Christie Brinkley
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Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses.'
John Lennon
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She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
Tommy Manville
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Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.
William Shakespeare
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Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.
Lao Tzu
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A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
Henry Louis Mencken
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis
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Love is a kind of military service.
Latin Proverb
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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finishes up.
Les Dawson
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
Marilyn Monroe
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If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
Richard Bach
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Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
Irving Layton
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Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
Anonymous
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Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the 'will of the people' goes out the window.
Bill Maher
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If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman
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While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.
Muriel Fox
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Some women pick men to marry—and others pick them to pieces.
Mae West
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.
Robert Briffault
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.
Bill Cosby
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
Will Rogers
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
Harlan Miller
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
Oscar Wilde
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin
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It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain.
Helen Rowland
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Erica Jong
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I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.
Erica Jong
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A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland
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Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,
Joseph Addison
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If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
Sigmund Freud
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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State- and church-begotten weed, marriage?
Emma Goldman
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One should steal only where one cannot rob.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
Gloria Steinem
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
Wilson Mizner
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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
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When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.
Nora Ephron
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli
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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
Clint Eastwood
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
Groucho Marx
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What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.
David Gill
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Andre Maurois
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The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henry Youngman
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh