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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
- Tertullian
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living!
- Tertullian
I then held, and now hold, the belief that a man's first duty is to pull his own weight and to take care of those dependent upon him; and I then believed, and now believe, that the greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and that no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Whenever you define family as anything other than a man and a woman married together, you have just introduced an ethical nightmare.
- Tony Evans
Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married.
- Virginia Woolf
When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, and in general seem to experience all the comfort of solitude without its loneliness.
- Virginia Woolf
So that was the end of that marriage.
- Virginia Woolf
You had to stay awake married to him [Humphrey Bogart]. Every time I thought I could relax and do everything I wanted, he'd buck. There was no way to predict his reactions, no matter how well I knew him. As he'd said before our wedding, he expected to be happily married and stay that way, but he never expected to settle down. He liked keeping people off balance. He was good for me -- I could never be quite sure what he would do.
- Lauren Bacall
Indeed, he married her for love. A whisper still goes about, that she had not even family; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough, and could dispense with any more.
- Charles Dickens
And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. And they went into the very room where Little Dorrit had slumbered after her party, to sign the Marriage Register.
- Charles Dickens
And they were married with the sun shining on them through the painted figure of Our Saviour on the window. And they went into the very room where Little Dorrit had slumbered after her party, to sign the Marriage Register. And there, Mr Pancks, (destined to be chief clerk to Doyce and Clennam, and afterwards
- Charles Dickens