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“Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927

“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.”

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Author:Jackie Mason

“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.”

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Author:Maggie Gallagher

“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.”

“Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.”

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Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.”

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Author:Alexis de Tocqueville