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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

-- Johnny Carson

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

-- David Chambless

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

-- Chekhov

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.

-- Cher

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

-- G. K. Chesterton

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

-- G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

-- G. K. Chesterton

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

-- Agatha Christie

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

-- S. T. Coleridge

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

-- Jilly Cooper

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

-- Irwin Corey

I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.

-- Noel Coward

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

-- Joan Crawford

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

-- Fr. Jerome Cummings

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

-- Fr. Jerome Cummings