Quotes with marriage

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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous We are confident that the Supreme Court will soon see the direction that this country is headed and enshrine marriage as a constitutional right for all.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Alain de Botton We are properly ready for marriage when we are strong enough to embrace a life of frustration.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Rodney Dangerfield We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Alain de Botton What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro What sort of job can you hold in America in which it is safe to hold the personal conviction that same-sex marriage is wrong? The answer: there is no such job. Except Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. Then you're fine.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • George Orwell When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
    Coming Up for Air
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Queen Victoria When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Cass Sunstein When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bridget Moynahan When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carl Honore Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Mark Twain Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson 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
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Omar Khayyam 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.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Gloria Steinem A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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