a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Rainer Maria RilkeRead
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a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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.
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
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.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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.
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
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