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Marriage is a total commitment and a total sharing of the total person with another person until death.
Sep 10, 2025
A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.
Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
We have forced everyone to go into marriage because of love. Because you cannot love outside it, so we have unnecessarily forced love and marriage to be together - unnecessarily. Marriage is for deeper things - even more deep: for intimacy, for a "co-inherence," to work on something which cannot be done alone, which can be done together, which needs a togetherness, a deep togetherness. Because of this love-starved society, we fall into marriage out of romantic love.
Being with you never felt wrong. It's the one thing I did right. You're the one thing I did right.
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.
At the beginning, your love supports your marriage. Later on, your marriage supports your love.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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.
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.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.
Thoughtfulness is like a glue that hold a married couple together. Be creative and consistent in finding thoughtful ways to show your spouse that you love them and they are always on your mind.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire.
To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.
I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds of forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages - and love affairs, as well - is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them as a person rather than taking away.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
Let there be spaces in your togetherness
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.