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“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
Oscar Wilde
“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
“Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.”
Mae West
“When entering into a marriage one ought to ask oneself: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
Louis K. Anspacher
“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.”
Bertrand Russell
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
Honore de Balzac
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.”
William Orville Douglas
