941 private quotes tagged marriage

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“When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.”— Rodney Dangerfield
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“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.”— Antisthenes
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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.”— William Penn
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“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.”— Rodney Dangerfield
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“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.”— Voltaire
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“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”— Johnny Carson
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“Well married, a person has wings; poorly married, shackles.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“If I get married, I want to be very married.”— Audrey Hepburn
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“Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.”— Burt Reynolds
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“Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.”— Voltaire
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“No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.”— Honore de Balzac
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“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”— H. L. Mencken
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“Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.”— H. L. Mencken