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Ambrose Bierce:
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Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
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Amy Bloom:
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been
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looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a
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miracle.
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Ann Landers:
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn
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the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious
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or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage
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the principle of equal partnership.
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Ann Landers Says Truth Is Stranger..., 1968
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Anna Garlin Spencer:
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The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage
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or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value
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to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but
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for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
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Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply
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bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer
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man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent
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success.
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Anne Bradstreet:
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If ever two were one, then surely we.
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If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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Betty Friedan:
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's
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movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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Speech, New York City, January 20, 1974
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Bill Cosby:
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For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is
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unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
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Danny DeVito:
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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to
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someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
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The War of the Roses
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Francis Bacon:
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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Friedrich Nietzsche:
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
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Gloria Steinem:
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a
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career.
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Groucho Marx:
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Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt
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about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.
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The Groucho Phile, 1976
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Hannah Arendt:
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The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared
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to which "the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where
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one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or
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place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race" are minor
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indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other
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rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable
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human rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" proclaimed in
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the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and
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marriage unquestionably belongs. [Dissent, Winter 1959]
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Harriet Martineau:
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Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they
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do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.
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Helen Rowland:
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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
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Homer:
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye
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to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting
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their friends.
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John Berger:
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All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
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Joseph Barth:
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Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
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Josh McDowell:
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What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to
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a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a
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marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard
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down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to
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worry about scaring him off.
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Joyce Brothers:
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Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take
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out the trash.
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Joyce Brothers:
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My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but
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never divorce.
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Katharine Hepburn:
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of
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one, go ahead, get married.
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Louis K. Anspacher:
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Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence
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is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
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Mark Twain:
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After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the
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beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than
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inside it without her.
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Adam, in Adam's Diary
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Mark Twain:
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or
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woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a
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quarter of a century.
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Mignon McLaughlin:
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with
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the same person.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi:
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I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
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Nanette Newman:
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A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right
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person at the right time. The rest is trust.
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Ogden Nash:
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To keep your marriage brimming,
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With love in the loving cup,
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Whenever you're wrong admit it;
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Whenever you're right shut up.
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Ogden Nash:
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers
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birthdays and the other who never forgets.
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Oscar Wilde:
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Pearl S. Buck:
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the
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individuals and in the way they express their love.
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Rainer Maria Rilke:
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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of
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his solitude.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning
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of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and
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such as are out wish to get in?
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Rita Rudner:
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I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.
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They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
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Robert C. Dodds:
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The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together.
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Samuel Johnson:
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Marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Simone Signoret:
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny
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threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes
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a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!
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Socrates:
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My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be
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happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
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Tom Mullen:
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Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom
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when we love the ones we marry.
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W. H. Auden:
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion
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but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is
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infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Will Stanton:
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Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less
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self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection,
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and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.
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