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• Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
• Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Ega
• Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
• Bender: A woman like that you gotta romance first!
• There are four stages to a marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
  -- Norman Maile...
• Result of a first cousin marriage.
• Don't destroy the world in the first chapter--you'll find you need it late
• Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a rui
  but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building....