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Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.
Sep 10, 2025
All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.
After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.
Happiness is love, nothing else.
Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
A good husband makes a good wife.
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every time after that, they'll never get all the pennies out of the pot.
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
Infidelity flows from a belief that women have the power to make you feel like a man if you only find a woman that thinks you're perfect; if you can only find a woman that you haven't hurt or disappointed yet.
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more.
Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
Our marriage works because we each carry clubs of equal weight and size.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we don't really fully know how Christ loves the church.
Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn, "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."
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.
For what is wedlock forced but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife? Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss, And is a pattern of celestial peace.
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
But people try love and because they are unconscious... their longing is good, but their love is full of jealousy, full of possessiveness, full of anger, full of nastiness. Soon they destroy it. Hence for centuries they have depended on marriage. Better to start by marriage so that the law can protect you from destroying it. The society, the government, the court, the policeman, the priest, they will all force you to live in the institution of marriage, and you will be just a slave. If marriage is an institution, you are going to be a slave in it. Only slaves want to live in institutions.
Women seem to be all right on bargains till it comes to picking out a husband.
Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can't let go.
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength - each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.
I am all for love, because love fails. You will be surprised - I have my own logic. I am all for love, because love fails. I am not for marriage, because marriage succeeds; it gives you a permanent settlement. And that is the danger: you become satisfied with a toy, you become satisfied with something plastic, artificial, man-made.
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
The concerts you enjoy together/ Neighbors you annoy together/ Children you destroy together,/ That keep marriage in tact.
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.