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"Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire."
"Love is often the fruit of marriage."
"Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me."
"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband."
"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."
"The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion."
"you can't be value free when it comes to marriage"
"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."
"The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig."
"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
"The curse of marriage That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites!"
"A light wife doth make a heavy husband."
"Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!"
"[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways."
"Friendship is a deep oneness that develops when two people, speaking the truth in love to one another, journey together to the same horizon."
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
"Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide."
"But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection."
"The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out."
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
