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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

—Mickey Rooney

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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

—Mae West

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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.

—Lawana Blackwell

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

—Kathleen Norris

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

—John Scalzi

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

—Jane Austen

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

—J. R. R. Tolkien

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

—Helen Rowland

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

—Euripides

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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

—Euripides

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I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

—Edith Wharton

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Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.

—Diane Ackerman

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There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

—Clint Eastwood

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