Quotes on Marriage

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.

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.

Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

If we are going to realise our ambition of ending the harmful practices of FGM and forced marriage, the role of young people in pushing for change is crucial. We also need to ensure that everyone, from government to civil society, is playing their part.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.