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Your Quotes for 11 March 2006 - Marriage

According to Shakespeare, who should know, Romeo and Juliet's wedding was on this day in 1302. If you've noticed my plea for help in the ad space below [mailed version] over the last few days, you know the Van Horn marriage is being severely tested by the process of relocating the shared domicile (not to mention two offices and various work spaces). To celebrate a fictional marriage that hardly lasted at all and a very real one that seems to be pretty durable, here are some quotes on Marriage.

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Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload, and remembering to carry out the trash.
     - Dr Joyce Brothers

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.
     - George Levinger

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
     - Millicent Carey McIntosh, 1898 - 2001

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
     - Simone Signoret, 1921 - 1985

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
     - Sydney Smith, 1771 - 1845

To keep your marriage brimming,
  With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
  Whenever you're right, shut up.
     - Ogden Nash, 1902 - 1971

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