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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. -- John Milton
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. -- Anthony Storr
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. -- Alphonse Karr
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. -- Hugh Hefner
I have nothing against her, and in fact I'm very fond of my first wife. But we should have ended that marriage eight or 10 years earlier. -- Michael Douglas
I don't know, one out of every two marriages ends up in divorce so there's a lot of great people out there who people aren't happy with. -- Mark Ruffalo
They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married. -- Leslie Mann
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
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. -- Jim Carrey
My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. -- Hugh Hefner
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. -- Anne Stevenson
I don't think it's more difficult for actors to have a good marriage than anyone. I think, in the end, a really important component of any relationship is honesty, and it also comes down to luck. -- Cate Blanchett
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. -- Thomas Moore
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. -- Hugh Hefner
There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side. -- Lynn Redgrave
I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people. -- James Inhofe
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages. -- John Mahoney
I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two. -- Ava Gardner
During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning. -- Ayelet Waldman
It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter. -- Deborah Moggach
All romances end at marriage. -- Thomas Hardy
The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love. -- Matt Haig
Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me. -- Michael C. Hall
Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
At the end of a marriage it is difficult to recall the beginning. -- Shirley Ann Grau
Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell. -- Enid Bagnold
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site. -- Jane Hamilton
Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst end of the bargain. -- Helen Rowland
Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey. -- Carew Papritz
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. -- Bette Davis
Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life. -- Elinor Glyn
A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal. -- Anne Lamott
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. -- Anne Sexton
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story. -- Hillary Clinton
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship. -- Lady Gaga
How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually. -- Suze Orman
Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. -- Gertrude Stein
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst. -- Gerald Brenan
I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy. -- Bill Maher
But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest. -- Lord Byron
Maybe our marriage is bound to be a fight, but it will have its compensations. Fights that end in bed have their own singular excitement, remember. -- Charlotte Lamb
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. -- John Updike
Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham of a marriage. -- Lauren DeStefano
I once had a dream about getting a marriage, house in the country, and at the end of the day we'd retire, but I'm never going to retire. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love. -- Koushun Takami
There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. -- Wallis Simpson
The emotional place where a marriage begins is not nearly as important as the emotional place where a marriage finds itself toward the end, after many years of partnership. -- Elizabeth Gilbert

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