"You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"
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"For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice."
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"The best by far is to marry in one's own rank."
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"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."
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"On the path to love, impossibilities are resolved by turning non-love into love."
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"Love is much more demanding than law."
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"I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me."
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"During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage."
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"St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake."
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"Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from."
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"You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet."
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"Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next."
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"Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
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"Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo."
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"There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation."
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"And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet."
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"I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last."
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"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."
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"Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there..."
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"Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee."
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