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To Have
AND
TO HOLD

 

 

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit out of it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN LOVE. THAT IS THE REASON ONE SHOULD NEVER MARRY.

Oscar Wilde

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It is a woman’s business to get married… and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as possible.

George Bernard Shaw

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ONE WAS NEVER MARRIED, AND THAT’S HIS HELL; ANOTHER IS, AND THAT’S HIS PLAGUE.

Robert Burton

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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Nick Faldo

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IDEALLY, COUPLES NEED THREE LIVES; ONE FOR HIM, ONE FOR HER AND ONE FOR THEM TOGETHER.

Jacqueline Bisset

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An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Agatha Christie

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IRELAND IS A GREAT COUNTRY TO DIE OR BE MARRIED IN.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

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Good marriages

ARE MADE IN HEAVEN.

OR SOME SUCH PLACE.

Robert Bolt

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THE CRITICAL PERIOD IN MATRIMONY IS BREAKFAST-time.

A. P. Herbert

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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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FOR MARRIAGE TO BE A SUCCESS, EVERY WOMAN AND EVERY MAN SHOULD HAVE HER AND HIS OWN BATHROOM. THE END.

Catherine ZetaJ-ones

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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Thomas Love Peacock

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MARRIAGE RESEMBLES A PAIR OF SHEARS, SO JOINED THAT THEY CANNOT BE SEPARATED; OFTEN MOVING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS, YET ALWAYS PUNISHING ANYONE WHO COMES BETWEEN THEM.

Sidney Smith

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

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MARRIAGE IS A WONDERFUL INVENTION; BUT THEN AGAIN, SO IS THE PUNCTURE REPAIR KIT.

Billy Connolly

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Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Edward, Duke of Windsor
(formerly King Edward VIII)

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HAPPINESS IN MARRIAGE IS ENTIRELY A MATTER OF CHANCE.

Jane Austen