Marriage Contract Quotes

• Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

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  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage   Intelligent   Feminist  

  My Life ch. 19 (1927)

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

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  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfish   Party   Divorce  

  2733

• Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

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  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Bad Relationship   Law   Long  

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage”, p.11, A&C Black

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• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

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  Dalton Trumbo

  Marriage   Fool   Earth  

  4365

• I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you want to marry another woman that you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is is the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that. And you probably could have both. You could have both traditional marriage, which I believe in. And then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.

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  Rand Paul

  Religious   Believe   Years  

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce since Eve was his second wife.

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  Harvey Fierstein

  Divorce   Rights   Wife  

  "Historic for Some, Same Old Shit for the Rest of Us" by Harvey Fierstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2008.

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• Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

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  Linda Fiorentino

  Marriage   Financial   Enough  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  2852

• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

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  Spencer W. Kimball

  Party   Divorce   Selfishness  

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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