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The value of
marriage is not that adults produce children, but that
children produce adults.
-- Peter De Vries
1910-, American Author
To many women
marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change
impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality
untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt
by even the red fire of physical passion --far less by the
white fi
-- Mary Webb
1881-1927, British Novelist
It's not the
men in my life that counts, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West
1892-1980, American Actress
Marriage is a
great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West
1892-1980, American Actress
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I wonder,
among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one
contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests
more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery,
than the marriage tie.
-- Edith Wharton
1862-1937, American Author
Long
engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each
other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
When a woman
marries again it is because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again it is because he adored his first
wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
Twenty years
of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years
of marriage make her something like a public building.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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