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| Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. | | Honore de Balzac | |
| Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Marriage...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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| More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. | | Doug Larson | |
| Most men find it difficult to remain true to a single woman, but relatively easy to be true to three or four at the same time. | | Georges Courteline | |
| Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. | | Helen Rowland | |
| One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague | | Robert Burton | |
| Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man | | Joseph Joubert | |
| 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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| Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces. | | Mae West | |
| Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. | | Gloria Steinem | |
| Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men. | | Aristotle | |
| The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. | | Will Durant | |
| The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev. | | Nikita Khrushchev | |
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