Best marriage & fairs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or politics or aesthetic taste. I mean, these shifts just aren't fair, and we need an easier way out.”

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Author:Jill McCorkle

“It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.”

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Author:Jane Swisshelm

“If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.”

Source: Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam: In Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea. By Captn. J. G. Stedman ... ...

“He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him.”

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Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.”

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Book:Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

“Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.”