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• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
  

  Groucho Marx
  American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

  Billy Connolly: The Authorized Version (Pan Books, 1976) by Duncan Campbell

  Billy Connolly
  Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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• Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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• Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

  Douglas Jerrold
  English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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• Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

  Barbara de Angelis
  American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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• Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

  Sophia Bush
  American actress (1982 - )
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• Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

  Joyce Brothers
  American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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• Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.

  Calvin Trillin
  American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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• Marriage is nothing but a civil contract.

  J. Selden
   
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• Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
  English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

  Thomas Love Peacock
  English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

  Jean Kerr
  American writer, playwright (1922 - 2003)
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• Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

  Billie Jean King
  American tennis player (1943 - )
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• Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

  Indira Gandhi
  Indian stateswoman (1917 - 1984)
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• Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

  Harold Macmillan
  British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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• Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

  Norman Mailer
  American writer (1923 - 2007)
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• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
  

  Richard Branson
  English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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• Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• masterpieces
• remembering
• renaissance
• masculinity
• mathematics
• mummifying

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