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So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball.
Virginia Woolf
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
Mark Twain
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The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.
Adolf Hitler
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An outlaw by profession, an inlaw by marriage. His tail lights were deteriorating, but his collection of porcelain remained a constant companion.
John Lennon
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
Henrik Ibsen
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It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.
Bertrand Russell
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
Henry David Thoreau
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
Carl Jung
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If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!
Madonna
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
George Bernard Shaw
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I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
George Washington
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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three.
Alexandre Dumas
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
Samuel Johnson
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
William Shakespeare
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
G. K. Chesterton
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Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.
Henry David Thoreau
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Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.
Adam Smith
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We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If happiness could be prolonged from love into marriage, we should have paradise on earth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.
G. K. Chesterton
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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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