"It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn."
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"The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society."
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"My wife is so stupendously ugly it is easier to take her with me than to kiss her goodbye."
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"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."
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"And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie."
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"Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
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"if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete."
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"The more I wonder, the more I love."
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"The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love."
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"It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination."
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"Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom."
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"Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
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"Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid."
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"I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."
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"Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?"
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"Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage."
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"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."
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"A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise."
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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."
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