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''If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.''
By Alan King
Date Added: 11/03/2011
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''Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.''  By Voltaire, French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778)  
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''Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.''  By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)  
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''A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.''  By Pearl Buck, US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)  
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''Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.''  By Dr. Joyce Brothers, US psychologist & television personality (1928 - )  
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''A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.''  By Andre Maurois, French author (1885 - 1967)  
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''Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does.''  By Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)  
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''Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.''  By Oscar Levant, (1906 - 1972)  
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''Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.''  By Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (1850 - 1894)  
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''The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.''  By Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)  
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''Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.''  By Phyllis McGinley  
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''The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.''  By Groucho Marx, US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)  
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''Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.''  By Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931)  
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''Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.''  By Calvin Trillin, US columnist (1935 - )  
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''Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.''  By Gloria Steinem, US feminist (1934 - )  
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''What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.''  By Leo Tolstoy, Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)  
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''Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.''  By Henry Louis Mencken  
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''A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.''  By Mignon McLaughlin  
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''A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.''  By Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant  
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''Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.''  By Kathleen Norris  
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''A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.''  By Author Unknown  
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''Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.''  By Beverly Nichols  
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''The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.''  By Wilson Mizner, US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)  
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''Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.''  By Helen Rowland, (1876 - 1950)  
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''Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.''  By George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)  
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''The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.''  By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English critic & poet (1772 - 1834)  
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''That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.''  By Paul Tournier  
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''If you want to read about love and marriage, you have to buy two separate books.''  By Alan King  
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''Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.''  By Alphonse Karr  
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''All marriages are mixed marriages.''  By Chantal Saperstein  
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''Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.''  By Ogden Nash, US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)  
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''Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.''  By J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter to Michael Tolkien, March 1941, British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)  
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''Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.''  By Joubert  
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''There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.''  By Woody Allen, US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )  
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