"I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out."
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"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."
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"My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same."
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"One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife."
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"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."
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"There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out."
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"Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else."
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"I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own."
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"You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life"
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"Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband."
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"If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path."
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"Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that."
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"A good husband be the best sort of plaster for to cure a young woman's ailments."
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"A woman must be a genius to create a good husband."
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"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them."
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"Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder."
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"Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work."
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"Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?"
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"Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain."
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"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."
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