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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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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!
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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.
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The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
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Marriage is the death of hope.
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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I married beneath me. All women do.
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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.
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It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
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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.
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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.
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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
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Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
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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.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]
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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]
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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]
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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
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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]
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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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.
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As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
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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.
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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I hate work. That's why I got married.
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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.
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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.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
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Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
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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.
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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.
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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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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.
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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
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Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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.
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
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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.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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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.
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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
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I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
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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.
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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
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It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
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Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.
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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.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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