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Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

-- George Santayana

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

-- George Santayana

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

The course of true love never did run smooth.

-- William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1.

Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.

-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.

-- George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me.

-- George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

-- George Bernard Shaw

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.

-- Dinah Shore

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

-- Sydney Smith

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

-- Sydney Smith

One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.

-- Ruth Smythers, Marriage advice for women, 1894

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.

-- Socrates

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

-- Sophocles

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

-- Herbert Spencer

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

-- Adela Rogers St. John

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

-- Gloria Steinem

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.

-- Gloria Steinem

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

-- Adlai Stevenson

Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.

-- N. D. Stice

Love is stronger than justice.

-- Sting

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

-- Billy Sunday

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

-- Karen Sunde