Marriage

(501 votes)   Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(499 votes)   Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.

Hoshang Akhtar

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(491 votes)   For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things: Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.

Cathleen Douglas

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(491 votes)   The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(444 votes)   Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.

Louis K. Anspacher

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(441 votes)   There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(410 votes)   Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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(404 votes)   Marriage is both a civil and because some religions object to the concept, any more than the government should ban atheism because some religions object to it.

Lisa Pampuch
newspaper columnist

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(401 votes)   A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(401 votes)   The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(392 votes)   The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.

Barbara De Angelis
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

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(309 votes)   To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ''never had a chance, poor devil,'' you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.

Margot Asquith
1864-1945, British Socialite

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(290 votes)   Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara De Angelis
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

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(286 votes)   Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.

Pauline Thomason

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(284 votes)   If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Anne Bradstreet

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