| It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. -- Euripides |
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EuripidesEra:
-480 |
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| As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. -- Socrates |
| Author:
SocratesEra:
-469 |
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| marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness. -- Benjamin Franklin |
| Author:
Franklin, BenjaminEra:
1706 |
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| Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author:
Bierce, AmbroseEra:
1842 |
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| Oh! how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring. -- Colley Cibber |
| Author:
Cibber, ColleyEra:
1671 |
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| Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. -- Rainer Maria Rilke |
| Author:
Rilke, Rainer MariaEra:
1875 |
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| There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author:
La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra:
1613 |
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| More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed. -- Thomas Fuller, M. D. |
| Author:
Fuller, ThomasEra:
1654 |
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| Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. -- Heraclitus |
| Author:
HeraclitusEra:
-535 |
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| The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. -- Alexandre (fils) Dumas |
| Author:
Dumas, Alexandre (fils)Era:
1824 |
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| Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author:
Swift, JonathanEra:
1667 |
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