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I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

— Julie Christie

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

— James Branch Cabell

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

— Alain de Botton

It couldn't be a simpler answer. Marriage doesn't really mean anything to me. I feel like in many ways marriage is more for the families of the couple than for the people involved, so I don't gravitate to it.

— Jon Hamm

Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.

— Les Dawson

I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.

— Zak Orth

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.

— Sandra Bullock

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

— Eddie Cantor

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

— Richard Harris

✗Opposing Perspectives

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

— Dada Vaswani

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

— David Vitter