When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.
Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.
We need to know what the Bible says about abortion and marriage, poverty and slavery, and we need to see how all of these issues fundamentally relate to the gospel.
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.
Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.
You're nothing short of my everything.
To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.
Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
[On marriage:] It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings.