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Marriage, it
seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
I hate work.
That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy
American TV Character,
Married with Children
The only thing
that holds a marriage together is the husband being big
enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where
his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker
The aura of
the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to
America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce,
which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the
moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into
it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love
as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference:
when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to
honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with
not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with
too much.
-- Anthony Burgess
1917-1993, British Writer,
Critic
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One was never
married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his
plague.
-- Robert Burton
1576-1640, British Clergyman,
Scholar
I married the
first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children
they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush
1925-, American First Lady,
Wife of President George Bush
All tragedies
are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
I have great
hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as
if we had never married at all.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
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