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Marriage Quotes
"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."
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"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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"Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married."
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"Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse."
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"The only really sound marriages are those based on mutual respect."
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"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."
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"Every wife who slaves to keep herself pretty, to cook her husband's favourite meals, to build up his pride and confidence in himself at the expense of his sense of reality, to be his closest and effectively his only friend, to encourage him to rejectthe consensus of opinionand find reassurance only in her arms is binding her mate to her with hoops of steel that will strangle them both."
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"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."
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"My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage."
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"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."
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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
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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."
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"The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same."
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"Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage."
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"On marriage and permanent attach."
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"As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep."
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"In short, the Enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture."
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"In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westcliff. As two strong-willed people with very different sensibilities, Lillian and Westcliff often argued and negotiated... and yet this didn't seem to weaken their marriage. Quite the opposite, in fact- their union seemed all the better for it.She considered her friends' marriages... Annabelle and Mr. Hunt as a harmony of similar dispositions... Evie and Lord St. Vincent with their opposite natures, as necessary to each other's existence as day and night. It was impossible to say that any of these pairings was superior to the others.Perhaps, in spite of all she had heard about the ideal of a perfect marriage, there was no such thing. Perhaps every marriage was a unique creation."
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"Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy."
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"Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling."
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"But it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune."
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"A woman's love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated."
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"A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other."
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"Relationship math suggests that It is rare for two people to enter marriage and one person is to blame for everything that goes wrong."
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"But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital - this would be unendurable."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Marriage cannot be a job as it has become."
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"Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement."
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"If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it."
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"Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two."
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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."
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"Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it."
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"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted."
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