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Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a more or less necessary condition for sexual intercourse. The play of courtship cannot, therefore, be considered to be definitely brought to an end by the ceremony of marriage; it may more properly be regarded as the natural preliminary to every act of coitus.

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Do you love your creator Love your fellow-beings first.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts.

Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small.

Everybody hates dependence, and that's why couples are continuously fighting, not knowing why they are fighting. They have to meditate over it, they have to contemplate over it, why they are fighting. Everything is just an excuse to fight. If you change one excuse, another excuse will be found; if no excuse is left then excuses will be invented, but somehow the fight has to be there.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What would I do without you?' is already destroyed.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony.

Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

First there's the promise ring, then the engagement ring, then the wedding ring... soon after... comes Suffer...ring!

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness.

Find an independent woman-who loves you for you and will be your best friend. I got it right the first time and was very, very lucky.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.

For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.