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But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#conflict #everyone #funny #garden #her

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know anybody who's married for a long time who hasn't somehow made room in their love story for the hate and resentment that they sometimes feel toward each other. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#anybody #each #feel #happy #hasn

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious? ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#famous #fervor #happiness #her #marriage

I always felt that a marriage works best at a farm... where you're together and everybody has clear-cut roles; they have chores, 'you take care of this' and you know. But it's hard. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#best #care #chores #clear-cut #everybody

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #love #marry #never #reason

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ↗

— Euripides

#beauty #fine #girl #husband #keep

I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#becomes #business #day #definitely #done

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#choose #friend #man #only #were

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#ancient-greeks #atheism #boredom #brotherhood #cana

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda. ↗

— Polly Williams

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