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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

The future is always beginning now.

The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and ... No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

The heart of marriage is memories.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.

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

The ideal that marriage aims at is that of spiritual union through the physical. The human love that it incarnates is intended to serve as a stepping stone to diving or universal love.

The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.

The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.

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

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it won't last; nothing can guarantee it.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

The most important step you have made or will make in your life is marriage. Its consequences are many, so important and so everlasting.. No other decision will have such tremendous consequences for the future.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.

The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future.

The older I get, the less time I want to spend with the part of the human race that didn't marry me.

The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.