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"I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero."
Charlie Sheen
"I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero."
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"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters."
Alfred Russel Wallace
"What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters."
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"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
Johnny Weissmuller
"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
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"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
Judith Wright
"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth."
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"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
Norman Lear
"I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this."
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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 were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."
Lynn Redgrave
"There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side."
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"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
Judy Biggert
"Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states."
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"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done."
Burt Reynolds
"Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done."
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"I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country."
Vanessa Kerry
"I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country."
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"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."
Al Goldstein
"Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged."
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"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."
Arnold Bennett
"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."
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"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."
Norman Mailer
"There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce."
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"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
Joey Adams
"Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway."
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"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."
Rick Santorum
"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."
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"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."
Corrine Brown
"Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate."
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"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place."
Helen Gahagan
"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place."
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"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes."
Lisa Guerrero
"I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes."
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"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
Anna Quindlen
"The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female."
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"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."
Juan Antonio Samaranch
"Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture."
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"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
Sophia Bush
"It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage."
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"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
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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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"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us."
Barbara Mandrell
"By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us."
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
Phyllis McGinley
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
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"Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."
Heinrich Heine
"Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented."
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"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."
Burt Lancaster
"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married."
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"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
Julie Christie
"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
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"God invented concubinage, satan marriage."
Francis Picabia
"God invented concubinage, satan marriage."
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"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage."
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"Marriage, even the best marriages are tough."
Jayne Meadows
"Marriage, even the best marriages are tough."
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"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."
Mary Cheney
"It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate."
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
Joyce Brothers
"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
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"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
Tommy Cooper
"Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!"
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"I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea."
Lara Flynn Boyle
"I think the institution of marriage is a great idea, but for me it's just an idea."
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"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
Bianca Jagger
"I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget."
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"Marriage is a wonderful thing."
Patrick McGoohan
"Marriage is a wonderful thing."
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"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
Peter De Vries
"Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults."
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"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
Patrick White
"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
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"Married and buried, wed and dead."
Rachel Caine
"Married and buried, wed and dead."
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"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."
Tim Murphy
"More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit."
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"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both."
Katey Sagal
"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both."
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"Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose."
Elizabeth George
"Don't let anyone sell you on the idea that anything (apart from the Lord Himself) is more important than your marriage. God means for your life and your marriage to be filled with passion and purpose."
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"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."
Dennis Miller
"Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch."
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"I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have."
Sarah Ferguson
"I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have."
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"We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God."
Amy Levy
"We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God."
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"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
Marge Piercy
"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats."
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"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
James Dobson
"I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them."
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"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage."
Tertullian
"Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage."
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"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
John Updike
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
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