| Ellen Key |  Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key |
| Elsa Maxwell | Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Elsa Maxwell |
| Emma Goldman | On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman |
| emotion | Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden
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| engagement | My stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event occurred which has deprived me of my only companion. |
| Enid Bagnold | In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold |
| entered | Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.
Patricia Arquette
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| entrance | Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne
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| Erica Jong | In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong |
| Erika Slezak | My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
Erika Slezak |
| Erma Bombeck | Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Erma Bombeck |
| Ernest Istook | Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.
Ernest Istook |
| Ernest Istook | We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on something as fundamental as marriage. The Marriage Protection Amendment is the only solution to this problem.
Ernest Istook |
| Estelle Getty | If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Estelle Getty |
| Esther Williams | Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
Esther Williams |
| Eva Gabor | Marriage is too interesting an experiment to be tried only once.
Eva Gabor |
| exclusively | Marriage is in danger of becoming an exclusively middle classes institution, the Conservatives have warned. |
| expected | I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Kate Adie
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| explicitly | Five same-sex couples tie the knot in Mexico City under Latin America's first law that explicitly approves gay marriage. |
| Ezra Cornell | I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.
Ezra Cornell |
