The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
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The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.
A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new married couple; in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes for her.
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
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