#marriage

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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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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Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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