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"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages."
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"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."
Marvin Gaye
"Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking."
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"While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage."
John Boehner
"While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage."
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
Karl Kraus
"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
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"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
Paul Getty
"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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"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
William Congreve
"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."
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"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
Coretta Scott King
"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
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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."
Linda McCartney
"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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"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty."
Helen Rowland
"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty."
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"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
Jean de la Bruyere
"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."
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"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
Douglas William Jerrold
"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."
William O. Douglas
"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
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"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
Richard Pryor
"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."
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"You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her."
Ramana Pemmaraju
"You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her."
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"Marriage is a wonderful thing."
Patrick McGoohan
"Marriage is a wonderful thing."
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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."
Eleanor Holmes Norton
"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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"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
Rick Santorum
"Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"
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"I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again."
Connie Sellecca
"I went through a long period of time in that marriage when I didn't believe anything was my fault. I had to face what my part was, and only because of that difficult work was I able to trust a man again."
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"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty."
Jerry Weller
"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty."
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"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
Ogden Nash
"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
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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."
Olivia Wilde
"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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"I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much."
Peter Criss
"I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much."
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"After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful."
Navjot Singh Sidhu
"After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful."
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"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means."
Dodie Smith
"There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means."
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"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."
Mitt Romney
"I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman."
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"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."
Bernadette Peters
"I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted."
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"Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy."
Nick Lachey
"Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy."
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"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days."
Erika Slezak
"My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days."
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"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
Julie Benz
"To us marriage is first, everything else is second."
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"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."
Madeleine Stowe
"Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit."
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"It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure."
Herbert Samuel
"It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure."
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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
Mary Douglas
"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."
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"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."
George Jessel
"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."
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"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."
Charlie Sheen
"I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers."
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"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
Queen Victoria
"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage."
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"They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing."
Terry Gilliam
"They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing."
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"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."
Anne Tyler
"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."
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"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
Mitt Romney
"Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians."
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"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."
Isaac Asimov
"Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her."
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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
"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."
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"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
Anne Stevenson
"I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy."
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"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
Paul Getty
"A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement."
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"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
Gloria Steinem
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
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"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."
Alain de Botton
"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."
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"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight."
Mark Ruffalo
"I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it, take care of it, feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of, um, sunlight."
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"As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"As you gave the ring to one another and have now received it a 2nd time from the hand of the pastor, so love comes from you, but marriage from above, from God. As high as God is above man, so high are the sanctity, the rights, and the promise of love. It is not your love tht sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love."
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"A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."
Barbara Cartland
"A woman asking "Am I good? Am I satisfied?" is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."
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"I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman."
Jimmy Swaggart
"I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman."
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"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
Edwin Louis Cole
"Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth."
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"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
Andrea Dworkin
"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
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