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For society, marriage is undoubtedly beneficial. But the burdens of civilized morality are too heavy for many to bear. ↗

— Jed Rubenfeld

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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else. ↗

— Samual Rogers

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All the best women are married, yes, they are - to all the worst men' There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but she went on rapidly 'So I shall never marry you. How should I marry a kind man, a good man? I am a barbarian, and want a barbarian lover, to crush and scarify me, but you are so tender and I am so crude. When your soft eyes look on me they look on a volcano. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret. ↗

— P.D. James

#fear #guilt #marriage #regret #marriage

What indeed is there to say? To be or not to be married, that was the question, and they had decided it in the affirmative. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#romance #marriage

Some would know Why I so Long still doe tarry, And ask why Here that I Live, and not marry? Thus I those Doe oppose; What man would be here, Slave to Thrall, If at all He could live free here? ↗

— Robert Herrick

#robert-herrick #marriage

Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol singing at your door this Christmas if you've got one of those ugly things hanging on it!” “No, from Lord of the Rings,” said Sue impatiently. “I'm sorry,” snorted Cathy, “I don't watch pornographic material." “Have you never read a book?!” Sue snapped. “It's about a small man who travels through dangerous lands to drop a ring into a volcano, it's a classic.” “Does sound like a small man,” she replied, “can't even face his marriage problems full on. ↗

— Paul Baxter

#gravity #humour #politics #science-fiction #space

Adonis is now treating her like a Princess. I think he might even propose marriage, since his wife has just divorced him!" Phyllis explained, & added conversationally,"Do you know why his wife divorced Adonis? For "impotence"! Or what they prefer to call "incompatibility"! Adonis had been giving all his sperm to Vicky at the massage parlour, & had nothing left for his wife. Whenever he had some, he would look for Vicky- so his wife found him incompatible! Don`t you find it funny? He! He! He!" she laughed.[MMT] ↗

— Nicholas Chong

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If you're going to get married, do it in the morning. That way, if it dosent work out ; you haven't wasted the whole day. ↗

— Warren Beatty

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Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. ↗

— Simon Gray

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