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Marriage Quotes
"I thought that I needed a church and hundreds of guests and music thatactually sounded like music, but I was wrong.What I needed was a drunken priest, irreverent guests, and a companionwho learned to play piano from a goat.""Then you got exactly what you needed.""I suppose so. But then again, all I really needed was you."
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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
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"Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts."
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"No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single."
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"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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"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."
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"In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark."
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"Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend."
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"Truth be told, many couples spend more time planning the wedding and the honeymoon than they do preparing for the marriage."
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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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"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."
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"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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"I suppose one oughtn't to marry anybody, unless one's prepared to make him a full-time job."Probably not; though there are a few rare people, I believe, who don't look on themselves as jobs but as fellow creatures."
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"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."
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"Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient."
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"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."
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"Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them-children, duties, visits, bores, relations-the things that protect married people from each other. We've been too close together-that has been our sin. We've seen the nakedness of each other's souls."
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"What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married."
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"I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents."
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"I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."
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"Any marriage happy or unhappy is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance however passionate."
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"Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate "relationship involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. During their understandably temporary association, the "married couple will typically consume a large quantity of merchandise and a large portion of each other."
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"We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration."
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"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."
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"From the time one gets married he tries to improve his wife, but neither of the two improves till death. Instead, if you would have tried to cut vegetables, it would have been done (with success.) So do not try to improve the wife. She may try to improve us [men] but we should not try to reform them."
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"Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy."
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"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
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"Marriage is foremost a vocation. Two people are called together to fulfill a mission that God has given them. Marriage is a spiritual reality. That is to say, a man and a woman come together for life, not just because they experience deep love for each other, but because they believe that God loves each of them with an infinite love and has called them to each other to be living witnesses of that love. To love is to embody God's infinite love in a faithful communion with another human being."
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"Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God."
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"Happy COUPLES are those who have passed both chemistry and physics!"
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"The romantic person instinctively sees marriage in terms of emotions, but what a couple actually gets up to together over a lifetime has much more in common with the workings of a small business. They must draw up work rosters, clean, chauffeur, cook, fix, throw away, mind, hire, fire, reconcile, and budget."
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"Successful marriage hinges on the application of knowledge - knowing and understanding God's principles not the exchange of love.. Brother you can be in love all you want but that doesn't make the woman the right person. Same with ladues, you can be head over heels with him but that doesn't make him the right husband.In all your getting, get knowledge and understanding."
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"To last, a marriage and family must be built on love-love for God, and love for one another."
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"All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion."
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