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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."

"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."

"I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would feel differently, I wouldn't want to write poems any more. So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state."

"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."

"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."

"Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work."
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"Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?"


"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"


"I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry."


"Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid."


"Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in."


"Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?"
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