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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
Edmond François Valentin About
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
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A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
André Maurois
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
Thomas Love Peacock
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The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
Harold Nicolson
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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
Florence King
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During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.
Ayelet Waldman
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly
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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Anthony Storr
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
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It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships — marriages, families, and organizations of every kind — together.
Stephen Covey
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
Phyllis McGinley
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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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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
Edith Wharton
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
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Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
Vicki Baum
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Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce
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If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King
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We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
Robin Morgan
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins
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Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman
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A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.
André Maurois
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