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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

-- Cass Daley

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.

-- Bette Davis

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

-- Lord Dewar

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"?

-- Phyllis Diller

Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.

-- Phyllis Diller

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

-- Ken Dodd

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

-- John Donne

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

-- Isadora Duncan

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley On Making A Will, 1919

Honor the ocean of love.

-- George de Benneville

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

-- François de La Rouchefoucauld

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

-- François de La Rouchefoucauld

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

-- François de La Rouchefoucauld

Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.

-- Madame de Rieux

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

-- Mme de Staël