Quotes on Marriage

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

For what is wedlock forced but a hell,_x000D_ _x000D_ An age of discord and continual strife?_x000D_ _x000D_ Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,_x000D_ _x000D_ And is a pattern of celestial peace.

The instances that second marriage move _x000D_ _x000D_ Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.

It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.