"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."

Marriage, Clothes, Visit

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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."

Stockwell Day, Canadian Politician

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"Just as one has no choice but to defecate, one has no choice but to get married. If your mind remains single, then there is no problem. However, one has no choice but marry if the mind is already married."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"A young man married is a man that's marred."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are."

Stephen King, American Author

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"When she had first crossed the dry and dusty world which his mind inhabited she had been like a spring shower; in opening himself to it he had not been mistaken. He had gone wrong only in assuming that marriage, by itself, gave him either power or title to appropriate that freshness. As he now saw, one might as well have thought one could buy a sunset by buying the field from which one had seen it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

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"What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

Bette Davis, American Actress

Marriage, Now

"You cannot really get married by mistake. You can only marry the wrong person."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Don't constantly make angry your wife. Once she throws you out of her heart, there is no appeal."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

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"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."

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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going."

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"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."

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"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

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"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."

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"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

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