Evan Esar Quotes
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.
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Even after marriage, our home is important for us.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.
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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.
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To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.
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Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.
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Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?
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I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.
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We are seeing people of faith being attacked, discriminated against, and losing their jobs because they are speaking out on the marriage issue.
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Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.
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You look for comic relief in difficult times.
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If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
