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MARRIAGE: Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
MARRIAGE: The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. (Peter de Vries, U.S. editor and novelist known for his satiric wit, 1910-1993)
MARRIAGE: She: ‘Before we got married, you told me you were well-off.’ He: ‘I was and didn’t know it.’ Jacob Braude, U.S. writer of wit and humor books) (Unknown Source)
MARRIAGE: If men and women really suit each other . . . they should live next door---and just visit now and then. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. Academy award-winning actress, 1907-2003)
MARRIAGE: A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. (Mignon McLaughlin, U.S. journalist and author, 1913-1983)
MARRIAGE: A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. (Anne Taylor Fleming, U.S. journalist, novelist, and television commentator)
MARRIAGE: Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. (Barnett R. Brickner, U.S. Rabbi and founder of the Natl. Jewish Education Association, 1892-1958)
MARRIAGE: A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. (Robert Quillen, U.S. journalist and cartoonist, 1887-1948)
MARRIAGE: Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Phyllis Diller, U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)
MARRIAGE: One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MARRIAGE: One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
MARRIAGE: A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, 1751-1816)
MARRIAGE: It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. (Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)
MARRIAGE: Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
MARRIAGE: Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. (Simone Signoret, French cinema actress who won a U.S. Academy Award, 1921-1985)
MARRIAGE: If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. (Ezra Bowen, U.S. politician)
MARRIAGE: Let there be spaces in your togetherness. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)
MARRIAGE: A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. (Danish proverb)
MARRIAGE: Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
MARRIAGE: Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage; and half shut afterward. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)
MARRIAGE: The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)
MARRIAGE: You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being. (Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)