#marriage

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. ↗

— Bill Cosby

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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ↗

— John Fowles

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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits. ↗

— John Gay

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Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#brings #difficulty #duty #fastened #feeling

I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn’t eat its own fruit but presents it to others. ↗

— Hayley DiMarco

#fruit #fruit-of-the-spirit #joy #life #love

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#famous #fervor #happiness #her #marriage

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

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