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"When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another."
"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does."
"One should never know too precisely whom one has married"
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love."
"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
"I am in love and out of it I will not go."
"Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice."
"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."
"Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay."
"If you want to be loved, love and be loveable."
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness."
"Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey."
"Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage."
"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three."
"He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him."
"For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace."
"Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third."
