"Hasty marriage seldom proveth well."
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"With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage."
"Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger."
"Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure."
"Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest."
"Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought."
"By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."
"It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together."
"If the marriage ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
"Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus."
"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."
"Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation."
"I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic."
"According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege."
"Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste."
"This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself."
"Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces."
"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."
"Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree."
"On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners."