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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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I dont have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress… ? No. Its not something for me. – Diane Kruger

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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples? – Ted Olson

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In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

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Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: the Son, O how unlike the Father! First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. – William Blake

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