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Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.

Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

Learn something from marriage. Marriage represents the whole world in a miniature form: it teaches you many things. It is only the mediocre ones who learn nothing. Otherwise it will teach you that you don't know what love is, that you don't know how to relate, that you don't know how to communicate, that you don't know how to commune, that you don't know how to live with another. It is a mirror: it shows your face to you in all its different aspects. And it is all needed for your maturity. But a person who remains clinging to it forever remains immature. One has to go beyond it too.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Love does not come to those who seek it, but to those who give love. It is a binding force between souls who have nothing to give but themselves to one another.

Love can never really be a great base for marriage because love is fun and play. If you marry someone for love you will be frustrated, because soon the fun is gone, the newness is gone, and boredom sets in. Marriage is for deep friendship, deep intimacy. Love is implied in it, but it is not alone. So marriage is spiritual. It is spiritual. There are many things which you can never develop alone. Even your own growth needs someone to respond, someone so intimate that you can open yourself totally to him or her.

Love dies only when growth stops.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Love never claims, it ever gives.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Man is less interested in marriage, very much less interested. In fact not interested at all. If he agrees, he agrees only reluctantly - because marriage means responsibility. Marriage means bondage, marriage means now you are imprisoned. Now you are no more free to move with other women. For a man, marriage looks like a prison. For a woman, marriage looks like safety, security, a home. For a woman marriage means home, and for a man marriage means slavery. Total different beliefs, so they act differently. Conflicting beliefs.

Man has to create marriage because man is afraid of the unknown. On all levels of life and existence, man has created substitutes: for love there is marriage; for real religion there are sects - they are like marriages. Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity, Jainism - they are not real religion. Real religion has no name; it is like love. But because love is dangerous and you are so afraid of the future, you would like to have some security. You believe more in insurance companies than in life. That's why you have created marriage.

Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.