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Marriage Quotes
"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
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"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
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"Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated."
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"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
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"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
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"There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
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"With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits."
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"I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have."
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"Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already."
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"The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy."
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"Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own."
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"One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul."
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"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset."
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"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."
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"Heather knows why and when her marriage ended with Richie and she knows why my marriage ended with Charlie."
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"I think that's one of the most difficult things in any marriage - in order to build anything, you must be together. You can't build anything over the telephone."
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"Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights."
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"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
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"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
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"Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty."
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"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action."
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"Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage."
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"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
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"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
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"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
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"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
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"Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished."
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