Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
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My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange, one for the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never was a better bargain driven.
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Don't lock me in wedlock, I want marriage, an encounter....
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Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching school, and learning to be mad, in a dream—what is this life?
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Black and stiff, but not a bad fit. Will you marry it?
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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He yaf me al the bridel in myn hand, To han the governance of hous and land, And of his tonge and his hand also;
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First, are you our sort of a person? Do you wear...
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And bigamy, sir, is a crime.'
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I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age In th'actes and in fruit of mariage.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educ...
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Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
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There is a time for all things—Except Marriage my dear.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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Naked as paper to start But in twenty-five years she'll be silver, In fifty, gold.
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They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
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The ritual of marriage is not simply a social event; it is a crossing of threads in the fabric of fate. Many strands bring the couple and their families together and spin their lives into a fabric that is woven on their children.
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There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
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It works, there is nothing wrong with it. You have a hole, it's a poultice....
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Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
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At fourteen I married My Lord you.
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Experience, though noon auctoritee Were in this world, were right ynogh to me To speke of wo that is in mariage.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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I wolde no lenger in the bed abide If that I felte his arm over my side,...
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There was an old party of Lyme Who married three wives at one time.
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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.
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