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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.: William Blake (1757 - 1827), "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
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There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rambler #18
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
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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, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
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What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.: O. A. Battista
Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.: Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005)
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 (1862 - 1937)
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