a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
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a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
True love stories never have endings.
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.
The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
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.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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