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Marriage is a fine institution -
but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
- Mae West
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Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West
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All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day -
and another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West
Love thy neighbor -
and if he happens to be tall,
debonair and devastating,
it will be that much easier.
- Mae West
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
A woman in love can't be reasonable -
or she probably wouldn't be in love.
- Mae West
Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
Marriage, ultimately, is the practice of
becoming passionate friends.
- Harville Hendrix
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
For a happy marriage,
love and accept your spouse just the way they are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect.
If it's not based on respect,
nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
- Amy Grant
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
True love means putting the other person before yourself,
and honoring the relationship above all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
A divorce is like an amputation:
you survive it, but there's less of you.
- Margaret Atwood
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The hardest of all, is learning to be
a well of affection, and not a fountain,
to show them that we love them,
not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck.
If you live through it, you start looking
very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you.
Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires.
Love imposes no demands.
Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole."
Love expands beyond the limits of two people.
Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.
- Deepak Chopra in The Path to Love
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The four most important words in any marriage...
"I'll do the dishes."
- Anonymous
Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.
- Mike Murdock
When people get married because they think
it's a long-time love affair,
they'll be divorced very soon,
because all love affairs end in disappointment.
But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
- Joseph Campbell
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman
By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates
A Great Relationship is the Dance of Two Great Lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My husband melted my heart the day he asked me,
"Can I participate in your wonder?"
In whose wonder do you get to participate today?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
My Loved One
You are my ground and you are my rainbow.
You are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy.
You are the start of my journeys and always my destination.
You are my home - the place to which I always return.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
The greatest roadblock to a great relationship
is trying to force a partner to change through bribes or threats.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Marriage is a sort of friendship recognized by the police.
- Anonymous
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have often wanted to drown my troubles,
but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
- Anonymous
Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner
They have come up with a perfect understanding.
He won't try to run her life,
and he won't try to run his, either.
- Anonymous
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor
A man is incomplete until he is married.
After that, he is finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Not everyone is always going to like what you do.
Your job application, your book proposal,
your offer of marriage is going to
get rejected sometimes - perhaps often.
Your boss, your spouse, even the person
behind you in the supermarket checkout line
is occasionally going to think that you are doing it all wrong.
Don't take it personally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always remember the three magic words: You're right dear.
- Anonymous
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man
is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
- Albert Einstein
Husbands should be like Kleenex:
soft, strong, and disposable.
- the movie Clue (1985)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
One good Husband is worth two good Wives;
for the scarcer things are, the more they're valued.
- Benjamin Franklin
I think men who have a pierced ear
are better prepared for marriage.
They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
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