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
Without the will, marriage is a mockery; without emotion, it is a drudgery. You need both.
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
He that takes a wife, takes care
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.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
There are a few rules I know to be true about love and marriage... Your values must be alike. And the biggest one of those values, Mitch?" Yes? "Your belief in the importance of your marriage.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
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.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths
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.
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