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He who marries for money earns it.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.
-Arabic Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
-English Proverb
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A good husband is healthy and absent.
-Japanese Proverb
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It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
-Scottish Proverb
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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-Scottish Proverb
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I will remember always that marriage, like life, is a journey - not a destination - and that its treasures are found not just at the end but all along the way.
-Anon.
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The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.
-Proverb
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Marriage is the sunset of love.
-Proverb
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Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
-Proverb
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Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.
-Proverb
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Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters.
-Proverb
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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
-Proverb
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Those that marry for money sell their liberty.
-Proverb
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Three things drive a man outdoors; smoke, a leaking roof and a scolding wife.
-Proverb
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You'll repent if you marry, and repent if you don't.
-Proverb
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Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.
-Proverb
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A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
-Proverb
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-Joseph Addison
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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
-Aeschylus
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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-Hoshang N. Akhtar
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When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
-Shana Alexander
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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
-Marty Allen
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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
-Woody Allen
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Marriage is the death of hope.
-Woody Allen
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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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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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
-Margot Asquith
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I married beneath me; all women do.
-Nancy Astor
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
-W. H. Auden
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
-Jane Austen
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-Jane Austen
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
-Jane Austen
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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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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
-Walter Bagehot
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
-Honore de Balzac
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
-Honore de Balzac
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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
-Tallulah Bankhead
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It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
-Brigitte Bardot
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
-Roseanne Barr
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
-James Barrie
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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 our last, best chance to grow up.
-Joseph Barth
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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-Baskins
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-Charles Baudelaire
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
-Vicki Baum
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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.
-Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, bk. 2, pt. 5, ch. 2 (1949)
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
-Catharine Esther Beecher
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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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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A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
-Milton Berle
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. Ephesians 5:25
-Bible
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Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Genesis 2:24
-Bible
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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. Matthew 22:30
-Bible
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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
-Bible
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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. 1 Peter 3:7
-Bible
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Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Marriage. 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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Bride. A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
-Ambrose Bierce
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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
-Josh Billings
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I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
-David Bissonette
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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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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
-Pat Boone
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
-Francis H. Bradley
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-Anne Dudley Bradstreet
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
-Vera Brittain
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You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
-Charlotte Bronte
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
-Joyce Brothers
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
-Pearl Buck
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
-Mary Buckley
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Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife.
-Al Bundy
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I hate work. That's why I got married.
-Peg Bundy
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The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-Archie Bunker
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The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.
-Anthony Burgess
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
-Robert Burton
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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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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage;
The future states of both are left to faith,
For authors fear description might disparage
The worlds to come of both. . . .
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don Juan
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She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.
-Caecilius
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Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can't have one without the other.
-Sammy Cahn
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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
-Mrs Patrick Campbell
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-Johnny Carson
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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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A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.
-Barbara Cartland
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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
-Thomas Chatterton
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.
-G. K. Chesterton
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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
-Daniel Chopin
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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
-Agatha Christie
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
-W. A. Clarke
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Girls usually have a paper mâché face on their wedding day.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
-Joan Collins
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Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
-Confucius
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
-William Congreve
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
-William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
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Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.
-Cyril Connolly
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
-Cyril Connolly
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
-Cyril Connolly
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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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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-Irwin Cory
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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
-Bill Cosby
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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-Noel Coward
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My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear.
-Robert Creeley, Ballad of the Despairing Husband
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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.
-Quentin Crisp
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One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
-Edward Dahlberg
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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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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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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!
-Rodney Dangerfield
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My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
-Rodney Dangerfield
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Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
-Robertson Davies
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I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-Bette Davis
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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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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 horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
-Marquis De Sade
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The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
-Lord Thomas Dewar
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I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself, you'd want to try even harder to make it work.
-Princess of Wales Diana
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I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
-Charles Dickens
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When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.
-Charles Dickens
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It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
-Charles Dickens
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Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
-Marlene Dietrich
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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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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
-Phyllis Diller
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It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
-Dr. James Dobson
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
-Kirk Douglas
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I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion.
-Ernest Dowson
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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
-John Dryden
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
-Isadora Duncan
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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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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
-Alexis Dupuy
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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
-Andrea Dworkin
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The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.
-Andrea Dworkin
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Marriage used to be bondage and still is in some places. That's disconcerting.
-James Dye
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I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
-Prince Philip Edinburgh
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
-Prince Philip Edinburgh
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
-Barbara Ehrenreich
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
-George Eliot
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That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.
-George Eliot
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
-Elizabeth I
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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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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.
-George Farquhar
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?
-Edna Ferber
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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
-Henry Fielding
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One fool at least in every married couple.
-Henry Fielding
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A good husband makes a good wife.
-John Florio
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When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
-Betty Ford
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
-Richard Ford
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I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.
-Michael J. Fox
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Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.
-Anne Frank
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
-Benjamin Franklin
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-Benjamin Franklin
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An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage. And something happened sexually in marriage --the swearing to forsake all others, despite its slight observance, had a profound effect. Some people felt trapped by it, impelled to assert what they called freedom. Some accepted it like a rein, and in the effort to avoid pain in the form of hopeless desire, cut off occasions of desire, avoided having long talks at parties with attractive members of the opposite sex. In time, all feeling for the opposite sex was cut off, and intercourse limited to the barest politesses. But something happened to you when you did that, a kind of death seeped up from the genitals to the rest of the body, till it showed in the eyes, the gestures, in a certain lifelessness.
-Marilyn French
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Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
-Robert Frost
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
-Thomas Fuller
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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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Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.
-Thomas Fuller
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
-Thomas Fuller
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Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-Thomas Fuller
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Husbands are like fires. They go out when unattended.
-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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I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, and when in love, we are loyal and faithful to our men. On the subject of her multiple marriages
-Ava Gardner
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
-Elizabeth Gaskell
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Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
-John Gay
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Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!
-John Gay
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
-J. Paul Getty
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Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
-W. S. Gilbert
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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
-Johann von Goethe
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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.
-Emma Goldman
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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 all 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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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-James Graham
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Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed.
-Germaine Greer
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I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
-Lewis Grizzard
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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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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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Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.
-Halen
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Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.
-Alexander Hamilton
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I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.
-Christopher Hampton
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning.
-Jane Harrison
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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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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
-Heinrich Heine
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Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.
-Ernest Hemingway
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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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Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.
-Hesiod
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-John Heywood
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When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.
-Hitopadesa
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She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.
-Hitopadesa
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
-Eric Hoffer
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Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life, a new future and a new identity (a new name). The boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a holy cause and dedicating their energies and substance to its advancement, they find a new life full of purpose and meaning.
-Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (Part II - The Potential Converts; ch.10)
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You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
-William Hogarth
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Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks, then they go on and on and on until they get what they want or until they get punched.
-Jools Holland
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
-Elbert Hubbard
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All marriages are happy it's living together afterwards that causes all the problems.
-Raymond Hull
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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.
-Morton Hunt
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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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In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
-Henrik Ibsen
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
-Henrik Ibsen
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
-Washington Irving
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
-Washington Irving
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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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It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.
-Douglas William Jerrold
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Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
-George Jessel
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I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-Adela Rogers St. Johns
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
-Samuel Johnson
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It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
-Samuel Johnson
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
-Samuel Johnson
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
-Samuel Johnson
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-Samuel Johnson
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
-Samuel Johnson
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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
-Erica Jong
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.
-Erica Jong
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I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.
-Max Kauffman
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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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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
-Ellen Key
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Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
-Ellen Key
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-Sam Kinison
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Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-F. M. Knowles
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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
-Ann Landers
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest --never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.
-Ann Landers
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We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
-Brother Lawrence
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind --intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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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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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-Stephen Leacock
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I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
-John Lennon
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Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
-John Lennon
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
-C.S. Lewis
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
-Abraham Lincoln
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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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A man stays in touch with society by means of a wife.
-Michael Lipsey
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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
-Martin Luther
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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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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-John Lyly
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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-Shirley Maclaine
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Come live with me, and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove.
-Christopher Marlowe
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An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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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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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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
-Harriet Martineau
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
-Harriet Martineau
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
-Groucho Marx
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-Groucho Marx
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-Groucho Marx
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-Jackie Mason
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
-Andr
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
-Andr
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A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
-Andr
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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
-Giuseppe Mazzini
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You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self.
-Jerry Mccant
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There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
-Donald H. Mcgannon
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When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.
-Molly Mcgee
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.
-Phyllis Mcginley
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
-Phyllis Mcginley
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
-Mignon McLaughlin
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I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
-Margaret Mead
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The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.
-Margaret Mead
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
-H. L. Mencken
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
-H. L. Mencken
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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
-H. L. Mencken
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
-H. L. Mencken
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
-H. L. Mencken
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After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.
-Dennis Miller
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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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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
-John Milton
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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
-Moli
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
-Moli
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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
-Michel de Montaigne
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
-Michel de Montaigne
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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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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-Michel de Montaigne
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rou? to retire upon.
-Thomas Moore
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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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Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps.
-Joe Murray
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Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God.
-Cecil Myers
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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
-Ogden Nash
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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is enjoy earning it.
-Ogden Nash
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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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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
-Ogden Nash
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If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
-Ogden Nash
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A little incompatibility is the spice of life, as long as he has income and she is pattable.
-Ogden Nash
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The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
-Cynthia Nelms
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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.
-Nanette Newman
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The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage: which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
-Novalis
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Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.
-Ovid
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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
-Ovid
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My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That keeps me on my toes.
-Mal Pancoast
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Oh, it is sure as it is sad
That any lad is every lad,
And what's a girl, to dare implore
Her dear be hers forevermore?
Though he be tried and he be bold,
And swearing death should he be cold,
He'll run the path the others went....
But you, my sweet, are different.
-Dorothy Parker, from Incurable
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Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
-James Parton
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In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.
-William Penn
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
-Samuel Pepys
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Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
-Samuel Pepys
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God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
-Francis Picabia
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I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar Chapter 7, 1963
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family --a domestic church.
-Pope John Paul II
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
-Alexander Pope
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
-Ezra Pound
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Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
-Matthew Prior
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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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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-Madame De Rieux
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The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
-Earl Rochester
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
-Will Rogers
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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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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-Helen Rowland
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When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-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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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
-Helen Rowland
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Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.
-Helen Rowland
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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
-Helen Rowland
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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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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
-Helen Rowland
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Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
-Helen Rowland
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No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.
-Helen Rowland
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In the perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.
-Ruckett
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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
-Rita Rudner
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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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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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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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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
-George Santayana
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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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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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Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
-John Selden
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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage.
-William Shakespeare
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
-William Shakespeare
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To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
-William Shakespeare
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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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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
-George Bernard Shaw
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
-George Bernard Shaw
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
-George Bernard Shaw
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This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
-George Bernard Shaw
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Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.
-Sir Philip Sidney, Song from Arcadia
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!
-Simone Signoret
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All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.
-Red Skelton
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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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Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
-Anna Nicole Smith
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I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.
-Stevie Smith
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It 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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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
-Sydney Smith
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
-Socrates
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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
-Stephen Sondheim
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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
-Herbert Spencer
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Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
-Captain J. G. Stedman
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A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
-Sir Richard Steele
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The marriage state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of Heaven and Hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
-Sir Richard Steele
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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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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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Marriage should be a duet -- when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
-Henry Lewis Stimson
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We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
-Richard Henry Stoddard
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Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
-Rose Pastor Stokes
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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
-Marie Carmichael Stopes
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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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In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
-J. August Strindberg
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Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
-Edith Summerskill
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-Billy Sunday
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
-Booth Tarkington
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He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-Pauline Thomason
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
-Alexis de Tocqueville
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
-J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March, 1941
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-Mark Twain, in a Letter to Will Bowen shortly after his marriage, quoted in
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
-Mark Twain
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Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he married.
-Source Unknown
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Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-Source Unknown
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A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-Source Unknown
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A marriage is a series of friendships. Love serves as its underlying theme. Friendships provide it with the new challenges around which the relationship further develops. Each type of friendship with ones partner comes into being, rises to a peak of enthusiasm, and then wanes away in our cedar chest of sentimental values. Every once in a while we go to the chest and draw out a friendship item to give us a shot in the arm. Then we put it away till another day.
-Source Unknown
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Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-Source Unknown
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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-Source Unknown
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Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.
-Source Unknown
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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.
-Source Unknown
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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-Source Unknown
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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-Source Unknown
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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-Source Unknown
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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-Source Unknown
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The pretentiously -- named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.
-Source Unknown
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No man was ever shot by his wife while doing the dishes.
-Source Unknown
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.
-Source Unknown
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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-Source Unknown
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One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.
-Source Unknown
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A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another.
-Source Unknown
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I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife.
-Source Unknown
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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-Source Unknown
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A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.
-Source Unknown
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Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-Source Unknown
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I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
-Source Unknown
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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 a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
-John Updike
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From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage was all downhill.
-Roger Vadim
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I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
-Susan Vass
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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
-Queen Victoria
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
-Queen Victoria
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
-Queen Victoria
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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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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
-Queen Victoria
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.
-Mary Webb
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-Mae West
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It's not the men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
-Mae West
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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
-Edith Wharton
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Today
-Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
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It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
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