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Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a
very dull play.
William Congreve
My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear.
Robert Creeley
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love
with a personality and must live with a character.
Peter De Vries
When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just
talking about physical attraction, which I can
imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple
has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
Betty Ford
Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a
mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in life,
a new future and a new identity (a new name). The
boredom of spinsters and of women who can no longer
find joy and fulfillment in marriage stems from an
awareness of a barren, spoiled life. By embracing a
holy cause and dedicating their energies and
substance to its advancement, they find a new life
full of purpose and meaning.
Eric Hoffer
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when
two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and
wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their
friends.
Homer
I have come to the conclusion never again to think
of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be
satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough
to have me
Abraham Lincoln
I never wanted to get married. The last thing I
wanted was infinite security and to be the place an
arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and
excitement and to shoot off in all directions
myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of
July rocket.
Sylvia Plath
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.
Sir Philip Sidney
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes:
in the sense that almost certainly (in a more
perfect world, or even with a little more care in
this very imperfect one) both partners might be
found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is
the one you are actually married to.
J. R. R. Tolkien
It is well within the order of things
That man should listen when his mate sings;
But the true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
Anna Wickham
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