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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.”
“When a marriage fails, the story of the relationship changes. The best parts, the parts that made you think getting married was a good idea, fade from memory.”
“In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.”
“This was the cream of marriage, this nightly turning out of the day's pocketful of memories, this deft habitual sharing of two pairs of eyes, two pairs of ears. It gave you, in a sense, almost a do...”
“Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
“I tried to imagine what it would be like if Constantin were my husband.It would mean getting up at seven and cooking him eggs and bacon and toast andcoffee and dawdling about in my nightgown and cu...”
“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marryin...”
“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.”
“What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.”
“There are trials and mistakes and even wars along the path of marriage.”
“..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.”
“Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them.”
“Every girl would like to marry a rich husband. I did twice. But what divides girls into two groups is this question - do you first think of money and then love, or vice versa?”
“Rocky, if Ive learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, its that no one can take care of me better than I can.”
“Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appeti...”
“It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.”
“But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though t...”
“... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect match. There are only somewhat good and somewhat bad matches. A couple are like two pebbles that are next to each other on a beach. They will have rough edges an...”
“That's the mistake people make - always searching for the perfect match, when they would be just as happy if they settled for somebody reasonably good.”
