"Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it."

Marriage, Time, Partnership, Life

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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

Marriage, Community, State

"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

"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

"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Marriage, Prayer, Acceptance, Man

"After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."

Wonder

"He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land."

Politics

"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

Creativity

"The razor hung between his shoulder-blades from a loop of cotton string round his neck inside his shirt. The same motion of the hand which brought the razor forward over his shoulder flipped the blade open and freed it from the cord, the blade opening on until the back edge of it lay across the knuckles of his fist, his thumb pressing the handle into his closing fingers, so that in the second before the half-drawn pistol exploded he actually struck at the white man's throat not with the blade but with a sweeping blow of his fist, following through in the same motion so that not even the first jet of blood touched his hand or arm."

Action

"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."

Society

"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."

Wisdom

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."

"After a long time in laboratories, psychologists have discovered the holy grail of a happy marriage: I applied it and it didn't work."

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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."

"He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land."

"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

"Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean."

"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."

"If a story is in you, it has to come out."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"A gentleman can live through anything."

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."