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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'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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"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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"The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention."
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
"The First and Worst sin couples commit against one another is not adultery but Negligence because it's Negligence that breeds adultery..watch it couples , do not hold back in giving that care and attention."
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"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction."
Milton R. Sapirstein
"The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction."
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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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"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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"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
Robert Graves
"Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued."
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents."
Phil Collins
"In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents."
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"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
Sydney Smith
"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
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"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
Helen Rowland
"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."
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"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
Mary Wesley
"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."
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"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan."
Stockwell Day
"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan."
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"I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination."
Dennis Rodman
"I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination."
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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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"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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"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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"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
Sydney J. Harris
"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
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"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
Christopher Lasch
"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
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"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."
J. B. Priestley
"Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes."
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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 believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
Anne Heche
"I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley."
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"God invented concubinage, satan marriage."
Francis Picabia
"God invented concubinage, satan 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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"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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"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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"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number."
Jamie Lee Curtis
"My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number."
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"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."
Kenneth G. Wilson
"My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."
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"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
Hedy Lamarr
"The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year."
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"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
Stockwell Day
"Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional."
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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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"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
Queen Victoria
"A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one."
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"Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated."
LaToya Jackson
"Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated."
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"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
Linda McCartney
"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
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"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."
Meg Ryan
"It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain."
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"There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage."
Richard G. Scott
"There are powerful emotions that bring two people together in wonderful harmony in a marriage. Satan knows this, and would tempt you to try these emotions outside of marriage. Do not stir emotions meant to be used only in marriage."
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"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
Alan King
"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers."
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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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"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
John C. Hawkes
"On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me."
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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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"Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man."
Jeff Bridges
"Sticking with a marriage. That's true grit, man."
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"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
Spike Milligan
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
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"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
Andrew Sullivan
"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
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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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