"The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession."

Murdoch, Iris on pride   

"Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings."

Bible on love
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"A temporary insanity curable by marriage."

Bierce, Ambrose on love
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"Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do."

Billings, Josh on love
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"The only victory over love is flight."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on love
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a d?go?t given by satiety."

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on love   

"When a match has equal partners then I fear not."

Aeschylus on marriage
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"The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make -- not just on your wedding day, but over and over again -- and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife."

Angelis, Barbara De on marriage
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret."

Behn, Aphra on love
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"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

Beecher, Henry Ward on love
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"Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal."

Anspacher, Louis K. on marriage
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it."

Bacon, Francis on love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on love
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on love
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."

Barry, Lynda on love
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"It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair."

Baudelaire, Charles on love
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."

Bacon, Francis on marriage   

"Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."

Eliot, George on marriage   

"The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on marriage
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"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known."

Ford, Richard on marriage
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"Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on marriage
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"Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind."

Graham, James on marriage
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"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning."

Harrison, Jane on marriage
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"When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it."

Hitopadesa on marriage   

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."

Duncan, Isadora on marriage   

"It destroys one's nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being."

Disraeli, Benjamin on marriage
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"I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year."

Davis, Bette on marriage   

"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."

Auden, W. H. on marriage
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"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Barth, Joseph on marriage
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"Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."

Baum, Vicki on marriage   

"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength --each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence."

Beauvoir, Simone De on marriage
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"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]"

Bible on marriage   

"Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination."

Bierce, Ambrose on marriage