“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
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“A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.”
“Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.”
“Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.”
“Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
“Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.”
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
“Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.”
“Love is often the fruit of marriage.”
“It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.”
“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
“My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.”
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”
“It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying it's separating himself from all the others.”
“She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.”
“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.”
“Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.”
“I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.”
“Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.”
“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.”
“In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.”
“I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.”
“Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.”