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“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”

Giving Happens Lines Marriage Roles Taken Our Lives Shapes Suits Prisoner Armor Hardened Suits Of Armor

Book:Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir

Source: Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir

“As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.”

Needs Two Dies Marriage Taken Alive Two Things Dread

Book:The sprightly romance of Marsac

Source: The sprightly romance of Marsac

“I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.”

Funny Found Fun Pay Known Marriage Taken Settling

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”

Love Inspirational Heart Sides Marriage Taken Relationship Feet Arms Protect Equal Men And Women Equality Adam Protected Adam And Eve

Author:Matthew Henry

“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”

Happiness Marriage Taken Relationship Comfort Granted Substitutes Sibling Taken For Granted Love And Marriage Took For Granted

Book:A Severed Head

Source: A Severed Head

“We only regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway." We cannot love and be limited.”

Ifs Men Love Has Beens Important Real Decision Marriage Taken Example Serious Tasks Regard Unions Fixed Inspirational Love Contemplating Getaways Examples Of Love

Author:Alfred Adler

“There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Wells Marriage Taken Wife Design Husband Specifications

Book:Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden

“The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”

Knows Marriage Taken Impossible Risk Terrible Married Intimacy

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.”

Has Beens Happens Beautiful Faces Marriage Gone Taken Doors Tree Fronts Huge Bed Unique Built Accounts Enormous Bathroom Exotic Inconvenience Front Doors Fridges

Author:Mike Mason

“Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.”

Life Is Marriage Taken Married Speakers Married Life

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation.”

Marriage Taken Adultery Provocation Provincialism

Author:Aldous Huxley