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There is a
French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage
is the sunset of love.''
-- De Finod
Married life
requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
-- Richard Ford
1944-, American Author
I'm going to
marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up
Sunday morning and going to the deli.
-- Michael J. Fox
1961-, Canadian-born American
Actor
Where there is
marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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One good
husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are,
the more they are valued.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Keep your eyes
wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
An undutiful
daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Marriage
accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them
for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to
feel as painful as a grain in one's eye. An open window, a
forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the
bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage.
And something happened sexually in marriage --the swearing
to forsake all others, despite its slight observance, had a
profound effect. Some people felt trapped by it, impelled to
assert what they called freedom. Some accepted it like a
rein, and in the effort to avoid pain in the form of
hopeless desire, cut off occasions of desire, avoided having
long talks at parties with attractive members of the
opposite sex. In time, all feeling for the opposite sex was
cut off, and intercourse limited to the barest politesses.
But something happened to you when you did that, a kind of
death seeped up from the genitals to the rest of the body,
till it showed in the eyes, the gestures, in a certain
lifelessness.
-- Marilyn French
1929-, American Author,
Critic
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