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Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be to be guilty of blasphemy. Only God satisfies the hungry heart. Marriage is but one of the channels He uses to enable us to taste how deeply satisfying His thirst-quenching grace can be.

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they 'don't understand' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.