"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness."

Beecher, Henry Ward on forgiveness
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on friends and friendship
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"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."

La Fontaine, Jean De on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is a horizon -- which expands whenever we approach it."

Hazlip, E.R. on friends and friendship   

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is like money, easier made than kept."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Brookner, Anita on friends and friendship
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy."

Moore, Frankfort on enemies
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"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."

Lincoln, Abraham on marriage
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"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."

Jessel, George 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 is socialism among two people."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on marriage
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"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on marriage
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"Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank."

Bruyere, Jean De La on marriage   

"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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"Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it."

Rowland, Helen on marriage
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"Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."

Rowland, Helen on divorce   

"Marriage is the death of hope."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on marriage
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"Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener."

Thomason, Pauline on marriage
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"When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it."

Smith, Charles M. on women   

"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Barth, Joseph on marriage
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"Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent."

Clarke, W. A. on marriage
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"Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence."

Unknown, Source on marriage   

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"Successful marriage is always a triangle: a man, a woman, and God."

Myers, Cecil on marriage
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."

Diana, Princess of Wales on love
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"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on love
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"It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving."

Braunstein, Richard on giving
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"Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies."

Unknown, Source on love
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."

Hemingway, Ernest on comedy and comedians
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"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."

Martin, Steve on humor
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"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on quotations
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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