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It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage ...

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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as if she weren't.

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one'...

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During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got goin...

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Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedn...

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Samael Aun WeorBeyond Death: What You Should Know about the Afterlife: the Gnostic Book of the Dead

The failure of so many marriages is due to their getting married out of animal passion and not out o...

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Samael Aun WeorFundamentals of Gnostic Education: Learn How to Think

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes pr...

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Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

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Samuel Butler (novelist)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Picture of Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler (novelist)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

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Samuel Butler (poet)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Picture of Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler (poet)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Picture of Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler (poet)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

Picture of Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler (poet)The Note Books of Samuel Butler

Marriages would in general be as happy and often more so if they were all made by the Lord Chancel...

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the so...

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Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...

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Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I b...

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Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

By journey's end the brides were much better acquainted with their grooms and more or less pleased w...

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I discovered, however, in the early days of our marriage that, in having her way, she put my interes...

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The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedd...

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He’d passed the longest night of his life locked in mortal combat with his ghosts, calling up and th...

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Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and rese...

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Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot...

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Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine ...

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In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is b...

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We don't really want to get what we think that we want.I am married to a wife and relationship with ...

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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a ph...

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become...

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If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson fr...

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You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you...

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(Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result f...

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Stanley CavellPursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't ...

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Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t k...

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when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there was no such thing as marriage, no...

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In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos...

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Stephen KingEverything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was ...

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In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my lif...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

It's worked! Our marriage has outlasted all of the world leaders, except for Castro. And if we keep ...

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Stephen KingOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only...

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No measure of time with you will be long enough, but we'll start with forever.

You’ll be angry, but I’m going to ask anyway. Will you marry me?' The unsupported voice, the one tha...

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Marriage I thinkFor womenIs the best of opiates.It kills the thoughtsThat think about the thoughts,I...

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When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be y...

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I am scared, numbed from the marital wars - that deadly, deadening combat which is the opposite, the...

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Susan SontagReborn: Journals and Notebooks

Nothing," I said. "It's quiet. It's like― I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff." I laughed. "...

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Not like this. He wanted it to be real.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days ar...

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I tried to imagine what it would be like if Constantin were my husband.It would mean getting up at s...

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This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure...

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I also remembered Buddy Willard saying in a sinister, knowing way that after Ihad children I would f...

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And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at ...

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A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's em...

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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an a...

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And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woma...

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And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woma...

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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ...

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I feel good with my husband: I like his warmth and his bigness and his being-there and his making an...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If...

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He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of...

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If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.But then he forgot all those promises...

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It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

To all who have known really happy family lives, that is, to all who have known or who have witnesse...

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Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

...the social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the co...

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This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortu...

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha...

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It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and tha...

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Thomas HardyFar from the Madding Crowd

The flowers in the bride’s hand are sadly like the garland which decked the heifers of sacrifice in ...

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Thomas HardyJude the Obscure

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfe...

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And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their li...

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Life with a man is more businesslike after it, and money matters work better. And then, you see, if ...

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I have been looking at the marriage service in the Prayer-book, and it seems to me very humiliating ...

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I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one has done so ignorantly ! I daresay it happens ...

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Some women’s love of being loved is insatiable ; and so, often, is their love of loving; and in the ...

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It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in...

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Thomas HardyThe Return of the Native

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

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Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree

When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's a...

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