Quotes about Love and Marriage

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. Votes: 6

I have no useful theories about love and marriage. Votes: 4

I believe in love and marriage, but not necessarily with the same person Votes: 3

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage. Votes: 3

You don't marry for love. What does love got to do with marriage? I spit on love and marriage. You marry for money. Votes: 3

Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other. Votes: 3

Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was. Votes: 3

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have. Votes: 3

There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have, Votes: 3

With a lump forming in his throat, he thoughtabout all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More thananything, he prayed his boy would not grow up to be a screw uplike his dad when it came to love and marriage. Votes: 3

Yes: but aren't love and marriage notoriously synonymous in the minds of most women? Certainly very few men get the first without promising the second: love, that is--if it's just a matter of spreading her legs, almost any woman will do that for nothing. Votes: 3

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage. Votes: 3

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well. Votes: 3

Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate. Votes: 2

Love is often the fruit of marriage. Votes: 2

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee. Votes: 2

I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. Votes: 2

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Votes: 2

Marriage is... OK, it's rooted and grounded on love and attraction. Votes: 2

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage. Votes: 2

May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home. Votes: 2

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. Votes: 2

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. Votes: 2

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. Votes: 2

Marriage is important to me and I love the idea of being married. Votes: 2

I have a strong marriage, and my wife and I love each other. Votes: 2

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished. Votes: 2

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do. Votes: 2

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Votes: 2

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. Votes: 2

I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children. Votes: 2

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude Votes: 2

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around. Votes: 2

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. Votes: 2

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship. Votes: 2

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. Votes: 2

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. Votes: 2

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it. Votes: 2

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Votes: 2

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. Votes: 2

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the position I take. Votes: 2

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission. Votes: 2

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. Votes: 2

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Votes: 2

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Votes: 2

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Votes: 2

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Votes: 2

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. Votes: 2

I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from my marriages and relationships. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. Votes: 2

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. Votes: 2

You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have. Votes: 2

Agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord. Votes: 2

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot. Votes: 2

I love marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage: a souvenir of love. Votes: 0

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. Votes: 0

Marriage is the tomb of love. Votes: 0

Marriage is the aftermath of love. Votes: 0

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative. Votes: 0

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage is the cold potato of love. Votes: 0

marriage is a great strain upon love. Votes: 0

Love is blind. Marriage is an eye-opener. Votes: 0

I'd certainly go for a love marriage Votes: 0

Love is love, but marriage is an investment. Votes: 0

In marriage, you must have trust and love Votes: 0

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. Votes: 0

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame. Votes: 0

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Votes: 0

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest. Votes: 0

Marriage is unbelievable, i couldn't be more in love. Votes: 0

Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific. Votes: 0

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. Votes: 0

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. Votes: 0

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing Votes: 0

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion. Votes: 0

The true love is unconditional.Marriage is a conditional bond. Votes: 0

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) Votes: 0

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) Votes: 0

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Votes: 0

Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. Votes: 0

There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love. Votes: 0

Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures. Votes: 0

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins. Votes: 0

Marriage, friends, is a lifelong feast; love is no light lunch. Votes: 0

A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering. Votes: 0

There is nothing like marriage, for two who love one another. Votes: 0

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom Votes: 0

The first rule of marriage: solve the mystery, end the love. Votes: 0

I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage Votes: 0

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. Votes: 0

I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me. Votes: 0

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live. Votes: 0

Marriage is a festival to celebrate unconditional love between two beating hearts. Votes: 0

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage. Votes: 0

to marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ... Votes: 0

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. Votes: 0

A love story in six words: Hello. Goodbye. In between was marriage. Votes: 0

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty. Votes: 0

Men are fine, love is fine, it's marriage I'm a little disappointed in. Votes: 0

Love has triumphed over marriage but now it is destroying it from inside Votes: 0

Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment. Votes: 0

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience. Votes: 0

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. Votes: 0

A marriage filled with unconditional love experiences the depth of grace and mercy. Votes: 0

Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love. Votes: 0

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace Votes: 0

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment. Votes: 0

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation. Votes: 0

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love. Votes: 0

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood. Votes: 0

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood. Votes: 0

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Votes: 0

Ask any woman in an arranged marriage. Love is the least stressful way out. Votes: 0

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0

Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far. Votes: 0

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song. Votes: 0

At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love. Votes: 0

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. Votes: 0

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body. Votes: 0

Marriage is a living sign that truly communicates the love of Christ and the Church. Votes: 0

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures. Votes: 0

I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love. Votes: 0

Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract. Votes: 0

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Votes: 0

Our early lessons in love and our developmental history shape the expectations we bring into marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree. Votes: 0

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake. Votes: 0

Love means never having to say you're sorry. Marriage means apologizing when you know you're right. Votes: 0

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage. Votes: 0

it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it. Votes: 0

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. Votes: 0

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me. Votes: 0

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two. Votes: 0

I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over. Votes: 0

Love is a matter of give and take -- marriage, a matter of misgive and mistake. Votes: 0

For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue. Votes: 0

Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it. Votes: 0

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice. Votes: 0

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward. Votes: 0

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. Votes: 0

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature. Votes: 0

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness Votes: 0

I love marriage. I think it's a wonderful institution and it's the most important decision you make. Votes: 0

Staying in a marriage without love is like serving a life sentence with an incompatible cell mate. Votes: 0

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. Votes: 0

Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. Votes: 0

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. Votes: 0

It should be a very happy marriage - they are both so much in love with him. Votes: 0

I don't see the point of marriage. But when I need my love, I get my love. Votes: 0

Pure love is an incomparable, potent power for good. Righteous love is the foundation of a successful marriage. Votes: 0

Little things spell LOVE. Beware the spouse or marriage that places a premium on expensive gifts and 'toys. Votes: 0

I asked for her hand in marriage, but instead got the whole body. Love is full of surprises! Votes: 0

The fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous. Votes: 0

I think I may be in love with you, Sophie," said Will. "Marriage could be in the cards. Votes: 0

I don't think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another. Votes: 0

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage. Votes: 0

But love does not mean marriage, a baby, forever. Love means you make me happy until you don't. Votes: 0

Sometimes I love the marriage of art and commerce; I love Donna Summer; I like the Rolling Stones. Votes: 0

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Votes: 0

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. Votes: 0

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity. Votes: 0

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better. Votes: 0

It is not your love that sustains the marriage,but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love. Votes: 0

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous. Votes: 0

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. Votes: 0

She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. Votes: 0

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. Votes: 0

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. Votes: 0

Freydis and Ref are in a world of their own, a world of love and pain, wrapped in marriage vows. Votes: 0

Let's all get married. There is nothing more beautiful than two people who love each other and commit to marriage Votes: 0

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people. Votes: 0

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. Votes: 0

Just as extreme love, in a marriage, for example, can turn to hate. They're the same coin, just different sides. Votes: 0

Love has nothing to do with marriage or one's marital statuslove is immortal, love is forever, and love is age-less. Votes: 0

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open. Votes: 0

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. Votes: 0

However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage. Votes: 0

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work. Votes: 0

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end. Votes: 0

But, in my opinion, if I am not formed for love, it follows that I am not formed for marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good. Votes: 0

Men act out like they're horrified by marriage, but when they find the woman of their dreams, they love it. Votes: 0

To have peace and love in a marriage is a gift that is next to the knowledge of the gospel. Votes: 0

If you want true love and a long-lasting marriage, you need to start by figuring out what makes you happy. Votes: 0

Any marriage that exists without a sound level of unconditional love, shouldn't be called a marriage in the first place. Votes: 0

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. Votes: 0

Marriage is not mainly about prospering economically. It is mainly about displaying the covenant keeping love between Christ and his Church Votes: 0

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers. Votes: 0

If marriage is about deciding to love on a daily basis, I have woken up to a no-brainer every day since. Votes: 0

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to. Votes: 0

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast. Votes: 0

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. Votes: 0

[] marriage is one thing, and love is anotherYou need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques Votes: 0

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love. Votes: 0

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Votes: 0

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. Votes: 0

New Yorkers your voices must be heard. Tell your state Congressmen to support same sex marriage bill. All you need is love Votes: 0

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It’s a matter of obedience, not emotion. Votes: 0

[...] marriage is one thing, and love is another...You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques... Votes: 0

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. Votes: 0

Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond. Votes: 0

I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids etc. Love never ends, na? Votes: 0

Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time. Votes: 0

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love. Votes: 0

As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it is about families. Votes: 0

Marriage has made me a lot happier and I'm deeply in love with my wife, and I thank God for her every day. Votes: 0

Marriage and friendship were built on trust and loyalty. Not deceit and lies. Love could only be given. It could never be demanded. Votes: 0

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage. Votes: 0

Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity. Votes: 0

Marriage is the most basic expression of the vocation to love that all men and women have as persons made in God's image. Votes: 0

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. Votes: 0

What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine? Votes: 0

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important. Votes: 0

Marriage is not just about love and living together. It's much more complicated, especially when you are going to be making a family. Votes: 0

A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other. Votes: 0

LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. Votes: 0

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. Votes: 0

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church." Votes: 0

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. Votes: 0

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies. Votes: 0

Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world. Votes: 0

Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband. Votes: 0

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [...] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. Votes: 0

Ma wrong about one thing. When I was girl, she only talk about love in the marriage. [] Nobody tell me what make real marriage--respect. Votes: 0

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me. Votes: 0

I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract. Votes: 0

My parents have had a love marriage, so I have made it pretty clear to them that I, too, will have a love marriage. Votes: 0

There is no marriage, yet, for human beings and animals. I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat. Votes: 0

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them. Votes: 0

Have you seen a room from which faith has gone? . . . Like a marriage from which love has gone. . . . And patience, patience everywhere like a fog. Votes: 0

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now. Votes: 0

Marriage is when two people love each other so much that they promise that if they ever, ever stop they'll fill out tons of paperwork. Votes: 0

You can love a song, but you can form a bond with an album, a relationship that evolves as organically and beautifully as a marriage. Votes: 0

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time. Votes: 0

I want you to know that marriage isn't for you. No true relationship of love is for you. Love is about the person you love. Votes: 0

A marriage is a way of accepting love and commitment of a man and woman in front of God, before moving to a new life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world. Votes: 0

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon. Votes: 0

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. Votes: 0

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding. Votes: 0

I treat everyone that way I expect to be treated and that applies to marriage. Committed couples should be able to marry the person they love Votes: 0

The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing. Votes: 0

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives. Votes: 0

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day. Votes: 0

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. Votes: 0

I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating. Votes: 0

Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never in favor of marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one. Votes: 0

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor. Votes: 0

Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first. Votes: 0

Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? Votes: 0

Finding a cat--or having a cat find you--can change your world as much as marriage, divorce, love, death, or even winning the lottery can, and sometimes more. Votes: 0

We made love like two sand dollars in a vending machine. She said she wanted marriage and kids, and I said all I wanted was a soda. Votes: 0

I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it's a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work. Votes: 0

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! Votes: 0

Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. Votes: 0

I have to be asked, I guess, but I love the idea of marriage. I think it's beautiful. I'm such a romantic, and I always have been. Votes: 0

Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. Votes: 0

For me, marriage is about love, not paperwork. I've never been the kid who dreamed of the big white dress, the long veil, the fancy diamond ring. Votes: 0

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. Votes: 0

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all! Votes: 0

It's clear your marriage is a happy one Your love is solid to the core May the years ahead be happy ones Each one happier than before Votes: 0

Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs. Votes: 0

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage. Votes: 0

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. Votes: 0

when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction. Votes: 0

Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman. Votes: 0

The ever clearer consciousness that love can dispense with marriage, yet marriage cannot dispense with love, is already partially recognized by modern society, by the facility of divorce. Votes: 0

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see. Votes: 0

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit. Votes: 0

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love. Votes: 0

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed. Votes: 0

I hope you fall in love with someone nice and have a good marriage. I might end up dying without knowing what it's like to be in love. Votes: 0

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit. Votes: 0

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love. Votes: 0

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. Votes: 0

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. Votes: 0

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness. Votes: 0

All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage. Votes: 0

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance. Votes: 0

Hollywood is the same as any other place when it comes to love, marriage, and divorce ... some people have trouble staying married and some people have trouble staying single. Votes: 0

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing! Votes: 0

Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.--- Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York Votes: 0

The Apache don't have a word for love, he said. Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?Tell me.Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say. Votes: 0

No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this. Votes: 0

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition. Votes: 0