Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. ~Gabriel García Márquez
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. ~Tommy Manville
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. ~Socrates
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It is not for the fresh cheek, the full lip, the fair forehead, the parted sweeps of sunny hair, and the girlish charm of form and features, that we love the wives who have walked hand in hand with us for years, but for new graces, opening each morning like flowers in the parterre, their predecessors having accomplished their beautiful mission and gone to seed. Old love renewed again, through new motives to love, is certainly a thing lovely in itself, and desirable by all whose ambition and happiness it is to sit supreme in a single heart...
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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ~Hoshang N. Akhtar
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A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. ~Kin Hubbard
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Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. ~Elbert Hubbard
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Marriage: A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other for ninety-nine years, or until death do them join. ~Elbert Hubbard
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In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do. ~Joan Didion
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It is easy to mistake being ready for a wedding with being ready for marriage. ~Robert Brault,
Marriages are like fingerprints; each one is different and each one is beautiful.
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Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.
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Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. It’s a choice.
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My husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God, and I didn't.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
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Once we figured out that we could not change each other, we became free to celebrate ourselves as we are.
Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.
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A long-lasting marriage is built by two people who believe in -and live by- the solemn promise they made.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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