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 | "A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship,
steady." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too
short." | |
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André Maurois
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| "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn"t want to be
bothered with sex and all that sort of thing." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy
as the woman who marries a man to reform him." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "A persons character is but half formed until after wedlock." | |
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Charles Simmons
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| "A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions
your wife asks for nothing." | |
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Joey Adams
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| "A woman may be married by four qualifications: one on account of her
money; another, on account of the nobility of her pedigree; another on
account of her beauty; the fourth, on account of her virtue. Therefore,
look out for a woman that hath virtue: but if you do it from any other
consideration, your hands be rubbed in dirt." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they
just can not face each other, yet still they stay together." | |
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Hemant Joshi
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| "Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn"t." | |
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Victor Borge
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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." | |
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Simone Signoret
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| "Choose a wife by your ear than your eye." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what
makes nations great and marriages happy." | |
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Phyllis McGinley
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| "Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull
play." | |
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William Congreve
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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." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring,
sole propriety, In Paradise of all things common else...." | |
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John Milton
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| "Harpo, she?s a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her
before she finds one." | |
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Oscar Levant
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| "Hasty marriage seldom proveth well." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for
they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or
mischief." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she?s at rest, and so am
I." | |
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John Dryden
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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." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
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| "I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a
wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by
drink and harlots." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "I know nothing about sex because I was always married." | |
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Zsa Zsa Gabor
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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." | |
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Rita Rudner
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| "I married beneath me. All women do." | |
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Lady Nancy Astor
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| "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then
it was too late." | |
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Max Kauffman
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| "I think, therefore I"m single." | |
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Liz Winston
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| "If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover
Spam." | |
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Johnny Carson
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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!" | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the
criticism of one, go ahead, get married." | |
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Katharine Hepburn
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| "If you would marry suitably, marry your equal." | |
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Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid
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| "In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar ? a practice which
is still continued." | |
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Helen Rowland
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| "INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes,
particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however,
consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even
been known to wear a moustache." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "It destroys one"s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human
being." | |
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| "It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human
being. Every woman should marry ? and no man" | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help
meet for him." | |
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The Bible
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| "Love is like pi ? natural, irrational, and VERY important." | |
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Lisa Hoffman
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| "Man"s best possession is a sympathetic wife." | |
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Euripides
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| "Marriage always demands the finest arts of insincerity possible
between two human beings." | |
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Vicki Baum
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| "Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in
heaven." | |
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Robert Burton
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| "Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women
their happiness." | |
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Madame de Rieux
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| "Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first
chapter." | |
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Cecilia Egan
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| "Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox ? affection, friendship,
love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love
straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is
respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and
friendship." | |
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Peter Ustinov
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| "Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Marriage is the best state for man in general; and everyman is a
worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside frantic to get
in and those inside frantic to get out." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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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 any
one who comes between them." | |
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Sydney Smith
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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." | |
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Spencer
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| "Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth." | |
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John Lyly
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| "Marry in haste, repent in leisure." | |
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Frederick Tilney
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| "Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet Been
invented." | |
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Heinrich Heine
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| "Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning." | |
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Alexis Dupuy
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| "Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in
theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw
colonies, the result being that they get on each other"s nerves and
regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting match" | |
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Dave Barry
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| "No great marketing decisions have ever been made on quantitative
data." | |
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John Scully
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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." | |
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Judith Viorst
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| "One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the
soul." | |
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Honoré de Balzac
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| "Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor
woman." | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "So geographers, in Afric Marriages, With savage pictures fill their
gaps, And o"er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and
sometimes three." | |
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Alexandre Dumas
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| "The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years
without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired
in sheep." | |
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Sir Alan Patrick Herbert
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| "The Marriage appears to us more real than the land." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "The Marriage is not the territory." | |
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Alfred Korzybsky
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| "The only time a woman can really succeed in changing a man is when
he is a baby." | |
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Natalie Wood
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| "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about
nothing?and then they marry him." | |
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Cher
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| "There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and
marriage is the sunset of love."" | |
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de Finod
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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." | |
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Clint Eastwood
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| "This is my rule of married life: it"s better to be happy than to be
right." | |
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Unknown
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| "To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That"s the true
pathos and sublime Of human life." | |
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Robert Burns
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| "Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty
years of marriage make her something like a public building." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were
married for four and a half years." | |
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Nick Faldo
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| "Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet
a public rout? Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that
are within would fain go out." | |
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Sir John Davies
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| "When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place." | |
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Helen Gahagan Douglas
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