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The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

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

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

...The only slogan we need in order to be happy in our home is: Love Each Other -three simple words. Apply the ingredients of love. Sacrifice for each other. Make each other happy.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.

The ordinary marriage is an unconscious bondage: you cannot live alone so you become dependent on the other; the other cannot live alone so he or she becomes dependent on you. And we hate the person on which we are dependent; nobody likes to depend on anybody. Our deepest desire is to have freedom, total freedom - and dependence is against freedom.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.

The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself?

The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

The quality of a marriage is proven by its ability to tolerate an occasional "exception.

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make on your wedding day, and over and over again and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband.

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.

There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.

There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

There are a hundred paths through the world that are easier than loving. But who wants easier?

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

The reason they're called the opposite sex is because every time you think you have your wife fooled - it's just the opposite!

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty