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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or a wife
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~ Erma Bombeck
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The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep—burning, unquenchable.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
~ Mark Twain
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A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
~ Doug Larson
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One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again
~ Judith Viorst
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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage
~ Robert Anderson
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" The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine
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If you made a list of the reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it
~ George MacDonald
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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
~ Virginie des Rieux
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What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
~ H.L. Mencken
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly
~ Peter De Vries
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
~ Simone Signoret
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