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'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine - A sad, sour, sober beverage - by time Is s |
Lord Byron |
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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude |
Rainer Maria Rilke |
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. |
Honore de Balzac |
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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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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. |
Ambrose Bierce |
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A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion |
Samuel Johnson |
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. |
Joseph Addison |
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After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him. |
Helen Rowland |
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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love |
Ann Landers |
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Always remember this: 'A kiss will never miss, and after many kisses a miss becomes a misses'. |
John Lennon |
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Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde. |
Marilyn Monroe |
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At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world |
Elbert Hubbard |
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Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to many another course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last |
Samuel Johnson |
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Books and marriage go ill together. |
Moliere |
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man. |
Socrates |
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Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. |
James Matthew Barrie |
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For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone |
Edgar Watson Howe |
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