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“Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.”

Men Work Common Marriage Worry Economic Loneliness Illusion Common Sense Factors Release Dependence Indestructible Working Man

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”

Source: Selected Letters

“Marriage: If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don't expose it to the elements. You don't make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”

“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.”

Source: The Essays of Elia

“The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.”

People Common Marriage Folks Common Sense Cynical Valentine's Day

Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.”

Thinking Men May Young Certain Choices Common Numbers Marriage Steps Class Wife Middle Husband Common Sense Young Man Middle Class Delusion Urges Crude Pros And Cons

Author:Denis de Rougemont

“Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, it is common, and they don’t even notice.”

Common Cities Marriage New York Gay New York City Sooner Or Later Gay Marriage

Author:Anthony Weiner

“The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.”

Common Marriage Husband Married My Husband

Author:Phyllis Diller

“The common impulse is not to sustain a marriage by finding satisfaction elsewhere, but to end the marriage and set up a new one which will provide the comfort lacking in the first.”

Firsts Ends Common Marriage Comfort Findings Satisfaction Impulse Elsewhere Lacking

Book:Man's World Woman's Place

Source: Man's World Woman's Place