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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. -- Spencer W. Kimball
A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. -- J. Paul Getty
For me to forgive my ex, he would have to sign a marriage contract with his tears and seal it with his blood. -- Natalya Vorobyova
Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations. -- Laura Wasser
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. -- Dalton Trumbo
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife. -- Harvey Fierstein
Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. -- Linda Fiorentino
Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either. -- Ike Turner
To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts. -- Hume Cronyn
I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. -- Helen Reddy
Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would. -- John Sentamu
I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject. -- Mike Nichols
In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't. -- Carlton Cuse
In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. -- Colin Powell
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. -- Charlie Sheen
I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs. -- Laura Wasser
If I go into a relationship with an artist, which at most is going to last five years, we have a 100-page contract covering every eventuality. Whereas with marriage you go into it with no contract, with laws that date back hundreds of years, and I don't think that's right. -- Simon Cowell
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. -- Barack Obama
State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey. -- Harvey Fierstein
Marriage is a legal contract -- it's not a sacred thing. -- Sarah J. Maas
[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. -- Ken Blanchard
A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution. -- Scott Hahn
Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract. -- Margaret Atwood
The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well. -- David Paul
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.. -- Bruce C. Hafen
I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. -- Katharine Hepburn

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