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The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

-- Andy Warhol

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

-- John Wesley

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

-- Mae West

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

-- Mae West

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

-- Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

-- Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

-- Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

-- Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.

-- Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

-- Oscar Wilde

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

-- Marianne Williamson

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

-- Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.

-- Shelley Winters