People who don’t marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.
– Ada Calhoun
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- The shrewd marry for money, the scheming marry for status, the calculating marry for power, but the wise marry for love. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I want to say that at various points in your marriage, may it last forever, you will look at this person and feel only rage. – Ada Calhoun
- The romantic fairy tales we grew up with — where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene — are not useful for grown-ups. – Ada Calhoun
- …that’s part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would. – Ada Calhoun
- Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition. – Ada Calhoun
- Work hard,and you will earn good rewards.Work smart,and you will earn great rewards.Work hard and work smart,and you will earn extraordinary rewards. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- …there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again. – Ada Calhoun
- (Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I’d just been tired.) – Ada Calhoun
- …even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall. – Ada Calhoun
- Failure is part of being human, and it is definitely part of being married. – Ada Calhoun
- Forsaking all others means going deep with one person — exhaustingly deep. – Ada Calhoun
- Wherever you go, there you are. You would just have different problems. Are the problems you have now so bad that any other problems would be better? – Ada Calhoun
- The boring parts don’t last forever. In retrospect, they aren’t even boring. – Ada Calhoun
- We’re doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green! – Manasa Rao
- Silos will continue to be inevitable as long as the rewards for collaboration are outweighed by the rewards for competition. – Pearl Zhu
- …we are the whole life that we have lived, its highs and lows, its fortunes and its hardships; we are the sum of the ghosts that haunt us… – Yasmina Khadra
- Marry someone you can live with, and you have found your companion; marry someone you can’t live without, and you have found your soulmate. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Marry, don’t marry,’ Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple str – Diana AbuJaber
- I want to marry this girl. I want to marry her now. – Katy Evans
- Become the kind of person the kind of person you would like to marry would like to marry. – Douglas Wilson
- If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do. – Thomas Hardy
- Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them. – John Berryman
- When a lady is ready to marry, she has to wait for a man to come for her.When a man is ready to marry, he just has to make his choice – Faithful Akpaloo
- (…) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won’t look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you. – J Sheridan Le Fanu
- Women marry men hoping they will change. They don’t. Men marry women hoping they won’t change. They do. – Bettin Arndt
- Women who marry for money and Men who marry for beauty are equally robbed in the end. – Harmon Okinyo
- Some marry because they are in love. Others marry to have sex … without the guilt. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Men marry for the womb. Women marry for their tummy. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her. – Debasish Mridha
- Become what you would want to marry ,as in, become like the person that you would want to marry. – Lisa Bedrick
- When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone – there are many, many other things to be considered. – Anne Bront
- When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman – Ikechukwu Joseph
- Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A nice warm shower, a cup of tea, and a caring ear may be all you need to warm your heart. – Charles F Glassman
- People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can. – Simon S Tam
- Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You marry who you think your beloved is, and then discover who they really are over the years. It’s that discovery that makes a marriage work. – Mercedes Lackey
- To a man who was required to marry before he was allowed to have sex with his lover, marriage is a -˜righteous’ form of ???????ution. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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