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“When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked”
Winston Churchill
“They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!”
Lea DeLaria
“There is no perfect marriage, for there are no perfect men”
French Proverb
“The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship”
“Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty”
Helen Rowland
“A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.”
Andre Maurois
“One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.”
Judith Viorst
“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
Bertrand Russell
“An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.”
C.S. Lewis