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Marriage

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. – Anne Taylor Fleming

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. – Doug Larson

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. – Judith Viorst

Divorce: The past tense of marriage. – Author Unknown

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. – Katherine Hepburn

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage. – Robert Anderson, Solitaire & Double Solitaire

Two things are owed to truthfulness — lasting marriages and short friendships. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. – Anne Sophie Swetchine

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. – Pliny the Younger, Letters

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. – Author Unknown

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. – Francis Rodman

Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose. – Beverley Nichols

Love is a flower which turns into fruit at marriage. – Finnish Proverb

One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it. – George MacDonald

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. – Socrates

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. – Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. – G.B. Shaw, Getting Married, 1908

The reason for much matrimony is patrimony. – Ogden Nash

Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. – O.C. Ogilvie