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Marriage must
be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
I would rather
be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
-- Elizabeth I
1533-1603, Queen of England
and Ireland (1558--1603)
Is not
marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the
beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution
wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
The betrothed
and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden
by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but
she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
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When the blind
lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.
-- George Farquhar
c.1677-1707, Irish Playwright
Wasn't
marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and
somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and
guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing,
when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and
the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of
love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty
and hurt?
-- Edna Ferber
1887-1968, American Author
One fool at
least in every married couple.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
When widows
exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay
a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely
fixed on.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
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