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“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.”
Mae West
“The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.”
Andrew Sullivan
“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
“Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.”
Helen Rowland
“After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.”
“Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.”
George W. Bush
“Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?”
Rita Rudner
“When marrying, one should ask oneself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this woman into your old age?”
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