Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere
Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.
No one knows what a marriage is like except the two people in it - and sometimes one of them doesn't know.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
The truth is friendship is every bit as sacred and eternal as marriage.
When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)
Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.
I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.
A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.
