Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. Abraham Lincoln

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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason: I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. Abraham Lincoln

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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps. Ronald Wilson Reagan

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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe. Jimmy Durante

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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it. Edgar Watson Howe

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

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A woman who has never seen her husband fishing doesn't know what a patient man she has married. Edgar Watson Howe

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. Phyllis Diller

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There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer

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Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the best. Kin Hubbard

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Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung

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Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her way, and the other, to let her have it. Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both. Ravi Zacharias

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Chivalry in love has nothing to do with the sweetness of the appearance. It has everything to do with the tenderness of a heart determined to serve. Ravi Zacharias

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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. H. L. Mencken

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To marry for money or to marry without money is a crime. There's no real objection to marrying a woman with a fortune, but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman. George Horace Lorimer

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Money ought never to be the consideration in marriage, but it always ought to be a consideration. When a boy and a girl don't think enough about money before the ceremony, they're going to have to think altogether too much about it after; and when a man's doing sums at home evenings, it comes kind of awkward for him to try to hold his wife on his lap. George Horace Lorimer

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Some fellows propose to a girl before they know whether her front and her back hair match, and then holler that they're stuck when they find that she's got a cork leg and a glass eye as well. I haven't any sympathy with them. They start out on the principle that married people have only one meal a day, and that of fried oysters and tutti-frutti ice-cream after the theatre. Naturally, a girl's got her better nature and her best complexion along under those circumstances; but the really valuable thing to know is how she approaches ham and eggs at seven a.m., and whether she brings her complexion with her to the breakfast table. And these fellows make a girl believe that they're going to spend all the time between eight and eleven p.m., for the rest of their lives, holding a hundred and forty pounds, live weight, in their lap, and saying that it feels like a feather. The thing to find out is whether, when one of them gets up to holding a ten pound baby in his arms, for five minutes, he's going to carry on as if it weighed a ton. George Horace Lorimer

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Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity. Benjamin Franklin

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