If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
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If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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.
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.
We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others.
Night and day you are the one,_x000D_ _x000D_ Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
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.
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