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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
- Oscar Wilde
The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
- Oscar Wilde
It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
- Oscar Wilde
Really. Been married once. No children. Amicably divorced. I dont have any tragedies in my life to give it a form and destination outside of my control. I like what I'm doing. But I could be doing something else. I've been blessed. I'm not even sure I'd change the bad things. Here comes the food.
- Cormac McCarthy
Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha
- DH Lawrence
The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
- Wendell Berry
And they ate supper before they said grace...Oh, um...she moved into his house, stayed awhile, and then they got married.
- Charles Martin
25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.
- H. Norman Wright
Couples who have growing, fulfilling marriages have thought lives that are positive and healthy. What happens between the couples is a reflection of the inner workings of each person's mind and heart.
- H. Norman Wright
The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.
- Ezra Taft Benson