"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Marriage, Independence, Home, Freedom

"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Marriage, Choice, Risk, Love

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Marriage, Freedom, Love, Life

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

James Dobson, American Psychologist

Marriage, Intimacy

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

John Updike, American Novelist

Marriage, Adultery, First

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

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"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."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Marriage, Children, Art, Poetry

"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Marriage, Women, Husbands

"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."

George Eliot, British Author

Marriage, Choice, Decision, Resolution

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"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."

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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

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"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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"Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."

"For in marriage a little licence, a little independence there mustbe between people living together day in day out in the same house; which Richard gave her, and shehim."

"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

"Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles."

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

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

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

"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."

"When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."

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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"Life is a dead-end street."